Quotes About Balance

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.

God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.

When we offend everybody, we've declared truth without grace. When we offend nobody, we've watered down truth in the name of grace. John 1:14 tells us Jesus came full of grace AND truth. Let's not choose between them, but be characterized by both.

We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.

If you know you can fall, you make wise choices to keep yourself from falling.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them." —C. S. Lewis

Perhaps you're afraid of becoming "so heavenly minded you're of no earthly good." Relax—you have nothing to worry about! On the contrary, many of us are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly or earthly good.

God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.

We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without the emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

The worldview of the Christian faith is simple enough. God has put enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. The

We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.

a solemn reminder not to make our goal in life one of sheer material pursuit. The allurement is great, and the disappointments are proportionate.

God has put enough into this world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. Faith and reason must always work together in that plausible blend.

Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask

You see, there is an intellectual side to life but also a side to life where deep needs are experienced. We falsely think that one side deals with truth and the other with fantasy. Both need the truth, and the elimination of one by the other is not the world in which God intends for us to live.

God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason. No earthly relationship with an infinite, transcendent God can exist without maintaining these two aspects.

Dac? senzualul nu ar fi educat ?i dirijat de spiritual, s-ar reduce invariabil la fizic, ?i nimic mai mult.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

Good to evil seems evil.

Love will fly if held too lightly, love will die if held too tightly.