Quotes about Balance

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances.

We must cast away by any contrivance, and cut out by fire and sword and contrivances of all kinds, disease from the body, ignorance from the soul, luxury from the belly, sedition from the state, discord from the family, excess from all things alike.

It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.

Just as the airplane must have both wings to fly, so we must exercise both discipline and dependence in the pursuit of holiness. Just as it is impossible for an airplane to fly with only one wing, so it is impossible for us to successfully pursue holiness with only dependence or discipline. We absolutely must have both.

One of the speaker's main points was that if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda. He pointed out that we tend to live under two agendas, ours and God's, and that the tension between them sets up stress.

God does not exalt His mercy at the expense of His justice. And in order to maintain His justice, all sin without exception must be punished. Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.