Quotes about Balance
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
- Edmund Burke
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states.
- Mike Huckabee
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
- Samuel Johnson
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
- Thomas Jefferson
And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?
- Rainbow Rowell
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
- Hudson Taylor
Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.
- St. Isidore of Seville
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
- Brigham Young
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
- Hudson Taylor
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
- Charles Spurgeon