Quotes About Balance

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Prayer keeps me centered.

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

To pray well is the better half of study.

Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.