Quotes About Balance

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.

that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla and Charybdis; with the result that, finding yourself battered and buffeted by the waves in the midst of the sea, you assert everything you deny and deny everything you assert.

We must read the Fathers cautiously, and lay them in the gold balance, for they often stumbled and went astray, and mingled in their books many monkish things. Augustine had more work and labor, to wind himself out of the Father's writings, then he had with the heretics.

Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.

Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine

Where the happy medium cannot be attained, it is better and safer to fall short on this side than on that; that is, too much mercy is better than too much punishment. One can withdraw and reduce too much mercy; but punishment cannot be taken back, especially where it touches body, life, or limb.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

The sun has adjusted its structure so that nuclear power is generated in the core, and diffuses outward, at just the rate needed to balance the heat lost from the surface-heat that is the basis for life on Earth.

We, and the visible universe around us, may exist only because of a difference in the ninth decimal place between the numbers of quarks and of antiquarks.

The truly intelligent person is one who knows when to use logic and when to rely on intuition.

There is equality before God and there is equality here on earth. There is natural equality and there is the kind of equality that human society creates.

As so often in history, equality for some can only be achieved by discriminating against all the rest.

However much some people may resent the fact, in nature inequality and not equality seems to be the rule.

I normally don't eat junk food.

God pays back debts without money.

Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.

My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three.' – William Cowper, 1731-1800 With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. – Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens, 1812-1870

get yourself a good bed and a good pair of shoes, because if you ain't in one, you are in the other.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. Jean Anouilh

What goes around comes around. How true those words were.

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.