Quotes About Balance

Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

It is good to grasp the one and not let the other slip from your hand. For he who fears God will follow both warnings.

For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a manís misery weighs heavily upon him.

As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumerís oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.

Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?

and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.

And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.”

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.

ëNo,í he said, ëif you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.

“Caesarís,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesarís, and to God what is Godís.”

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.

Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Then Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesarís, and to God what is Godís.” And they marveled at Him.

But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”