Quotes about Balance

In a moment, your thoughts can seem more important than they actually are. In a moment, your emotions can seem more reliable than they really are. In a moment, your needs can seem more essential than they truly are.

So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

A desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.

That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.

Every leader is a package of God-given gifts and God-assigned limits. It is dangerous to focus on the one without humbly remembering the other.

Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.

We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.