Quotes About Balance

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him.

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side.

To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.

We are half mechanical [physical] and half mysterious [spiritual]; to live in either domain and ignore the other is to be fools or fanatics... We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical realm what God WORK IN in the mysterious realm.

To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught

There are not three stages in spiritual life—worship, waiting and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of Our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.

We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical [physical] realm what Gods WORKS IN [us] in the mysterious [spiritual] realm. Beware of any spiritual emotion that you do not work out mechanically...

In spiritual issues it is customary for us to put God first, but we tend to think that it is inappropriate and unnecessary to put Him first in the practical, everyday issues of our lives.

Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight.

It is at the risk of our own soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

There are not three levels of spiritual life--worship, waiting, and work...God's idea is that the three should go together as one.

Love is spontaneous, but it has to be maintained through discipline.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone

We no longer believe in the power of reason over life. We feel that it is life which dominates reason.

Hay que ser héroe o santo. En el término medio no está la sabiduría, sino la vulgaridad

Denn Dummheit und Glück ja mit vorliebe Hand in Hand gingen.