Quotes About Balance

In marriage if one partner stays small and quiet in one area of the universe of two, the other may (or must) expand to fill the void.

You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Exodus 20:9–10

Godly accountability is never codependency.

Think of marriage as a three-legged stool. The legs are a submissive wife, a loving husband, and Christ.

Actually, God's method of balancing our checkbooks isn't primarily about numbers. It's about attitude.

we don't have to put down the Sword of the Spirit (the Word of God) to raise up the Shield of Faith. The way I see it, that's why God gave us two hands. If we want to live abundantly and victoriously, we must pick up both. To pick up the Sword of the Spirit without the Shield of Faith is to shrivel and dry up in the desert of legalism. To pick up the Shield of Faith without the Sword of the Spirit is to try walking by faith on quicksand.

Let's be careful, though, that we don't err in the opposite extreme of faithless caution. A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants. The latter is our goal.

Embrace the tension.

God doesn't call us to sacrifice our sanity; He calls us to sacrifice our selfishness.

Here's a rule of thumb for the thought life that will be a catalyst for victory in all parts of life: starve the flesh and feed the spirit.

God created male and female with an intricate balance of sameness and distinction, an impressive concoction of common part and counterpart. Each image bearers. Each of equal worth. Each necessary for a future. Each necessary for survival.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth" (3 John 2 KJV). I wouldst wish for thou to goeth and concludest by thinking of thine own example of a Sabbath moment. If thou canst remember one, get thy rest-rebellious self out of thy workplace before thou collapseth.

I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

I speak from a black woman's perspective, and that's a specific perspective, but sometimes there are things I want to be understood by folks who may not have an entryway into that concept, so I have to think about how I can open the space to bring those people in. And that does require balance.

We all have a personal recipe for productivity. One person may need six cups of autonomy and just a pinch of collaboration. Another person may require heaps of sociability and noise, with just a teaspoon of occasional privacy.

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To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

It's not easy to have it all. Frankly, you know, you have to give as much to the career that the career requires and, at the same time, you have to give as much to the family as the attention that's required. But it can be done, yes.

You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.

It's not easy to have it all. Frankly, you know, you have to give as much to the career that the career requires and, at the same time, you have to give as much to the family as the attention that's required.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.