Quotes About Balance

Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, once cautioned, "Do not be so busy with the work of Christ (or anything else) that you have no strength left for praying. True prayer requires strength.

If the men are supposed to be the heads of the family, they must also be the heads of the community. The community must be structured in a way that supports the pattern of the family, and the family must be structured in a way that supports the pattern of the community.

Leaders who think that growth in grace comes by knowing the Word of God without doing it will produce congregations of passive Christians which resemble human beings that eat too much and exercise too little.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor carth two masters.

I find luxury only encourages guests to outstay their welcome. A reptile or two keeps everyone on their toes

People who are careless of the land and of the creatures and spirits with which we share it are careless of themselves.

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

Sitting for even five minutes with a journal offers a rare cease-fire in the battle of daily life.

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

What I want to know is, when did busy become better? When did a jam-packed diary become a measure of success?

I can't help feeling as if there's something missing in my life. But I don't know what it is. And the harder I look, the more I can't find it because there's just too much pressure and not enough time.

When a person quietly reconciles himself to all the contradictions that life offers, and can comfortably ride out or flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both, but getting stuck in neither, then he has achieved freedom.

E. B. White, who once wrote, "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. GOETHE

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

I didn't want to go forward—I didn't like what I saw there. But I couldn't go back, either, because I tried that and it didn't work. And you can't spend your life on a tightrope.

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

The Light Stays Bright When it doesn't Avoid the Shadow.

However we think about these [long-term] goals, we ought to think about them a lot. They ought to be our touchstone, if only to keep us from being sucked into the quicksand of daily life.

Parents become more controlling when time is short, just as they do when they're in public. The combination of the two conditions is a killer.

In extreme cases, the "press for success" can reach a fever pitch, such that the child's present is essentially mortgaged to the future. Activities that might bring meaning or enjoyment are sacrificed in a ceaseless effort to prepare for Harvard.