Quotes about Balance

comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

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.

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).

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.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

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.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

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

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.

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).