Quotes about Balance

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

Insistence that both lead means there won't be any dance.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at all fitting or proper is that we should set our hearts on them. Temporal things must be treated as temporal things - received, given thanks for, offered back, but enjoyed. They must not be treated like eternal things.

If we love someone more than we love God, it is worse than inordinate - it is idolatry. When God is first in our hearts, all other loves are in order and find their rightful place.

Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

They explained their concerns and she said, "I feel a kind of isolation that you'll never be able to understand. What you see is a mere fraction of what's happening inside, but at least my inner and outer worlds are reflecting each other. You wouldn't want me to throw worlds off balance, would you?

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in; put second things first and we lose both first and second things.

We mustn't say more than we should, but we mustn't say less than we must.

It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.