Quotes about Balance

I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.

ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.