Quotes About Balance

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.

Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Pastors simply need three characteristics to satisfy all their church members: omniscience; omnipresence, and omnipotence.

Church burnout will not take place if we are seeking to please God in our service rather than to please people.

La conclusion: la espiritualidad de comida rapida no es saludable. Es ma's, el enfoque al ministerio cada vez mas amplio y mas rapido mata nuestras iglesias. La respuesta adecuada: mantenerse enfocado en el proceso simple. Decir no a todo lo demas.

If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to you for those minutes. Enjoy your blessed aloneness for a brief season.

Being a good steward of those material things that God has given our churches is good. Becoming obsessed with any one item to the neglect of His mission is idolatry.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

All perfection hath some imperfection joined to it in this life, and all our power of sight is not without some darkness.

It is better for you to live privately and take care of yourself than it is to neglect your soul even though you could work wonders in the world.

muchos estudian más para saber que para bien vivir,

You were born to work, so why do you look for rest?

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.