Quotes about Balance
Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.
— Aldous Huxley
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
— James H. Cone
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
— St. Augustine
The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is a reminder of the two worlds—this world and the world to come; it is an example of both worlds. For the Sabbath is joy, holiness, and rest; joy is part of this world; holiness and rest are something of the world to come."
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel