Quotes about Balance

One of the primary reasons that you have to listen to outsiders: If you don't, you will be driven by the complaints and demands of the insiders.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

The price of peace is righteousness.

Maintaining good health should be the primary focus of everyone.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.