Quotes about Balance

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair.

I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).

In Christ we are invited to participate in the reality of God and the reality of the world at the same time, the one not without the other.

We recognize, then, that only as we are within the fellowship can we be· alone, and only he that is alone can live in the fellowship. Only in the fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in the fellowship. It is not as though the one preceded the other; both begin at the same time, namely, with the call of Jesus Christ.

By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

I am rooted, but I flow.