Quotes About Balance

I was engaged in more activity for God than my being with God could sustain.

Simplicity The primary issue here is to remove distractions and remain free from attachments.

Play and Recreation The key here is to engage in activities that are pure and healthy and that breathe life into you.

The Sabbath calls us to build the doing of nothing into our schedules each week.

The Four Principles of Biblical Sabbath

On Sabbath I embrace my limits. God is God. He is indispensable. I am his creature. The world continues working fine when I stop.

I purposely engage in ideas and people that get my mind off even the thought of work! That includes napping, working out, going for long walks, reading a novel, watching a good movie, going out for dinner. I avoid the computer and cell phone.

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The emotionally unhealthy leader is someone who operates in a continuous state of emotional and spiritual deficit, lacking emotional maturity and a "being with God" sufficient to sustain their "doing for God." When

You Can't Live at Warp Speed without Warping Your Soul

La salud emocional y la madurez espiritual son inseparables.

Christian faith: emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable.

Maturity in life is when someone is living joyfully within their God-given limits.

Lord, you know my world can be nonstop and complex. Help me to balance the demands coming at me today, remembering you while I work, and keeping you at the center of all I do. In Jesus' name, amen.

Martha's problems, however, go beyond her busyness. I suspect that if Martha were to sit at the feet of Jesus, she would still be distracted by everything on her mind.

Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

Thus, disciplining ourselves to invest time, energy, and money in personal development is not a selfish indulgence, but one of the most loving things we offer to those we serve. Team

Detachment is the great secret of interior peace.

Det energetiske menneske har ikke noget behov for at trænge sig på eller præge mennesker og ting. Det lever gennem den inciterende følelse af, at mennesker og ting kommer det i møde,

Uelskede føler sig hurtigt under tryk. Derfor sætter de deres grænser for snært.

Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

It both sustains and kills—like a God.

You should not let yourself get too high or too low. Stay in the middle.