Quotes about Balance

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound pitfalls and perils. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair.

I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).

In Christ we are invited to participate in the reality of God and the reality of the world at the same time, the one not without the other.

We recognize, then, that only as we are within the fellowship can we be· alone, and only he that is alone can live in the fellowship. Only in the fellowship do we learn to be rightly alone and only in aloneness do we learn to live rightly in the fellowship. It is not as though the one preceded the other; both begin at the same time, namely, with the call of Jesus Christ.

By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.