Quotes about Balance
comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.
- Richard Baxter
O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).
- Richard Baxter
He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.
- Richard Blackaby
We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Perfection, rather, is the ability to incorporate imperfection! There's no other way to live: You either incorporate imperfection, or you fall into denial. That's how the Spirit moves in or out of our lives. —from Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
That is true for both liberals and conservatives: the liberals deny the vertical arm of the cross (transcendence and tradition); the conservatives deny the horizontal (breadth and inclusivity).
- Fr. Richard Rohr