Quotes about Balance

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

You can't just let nature run wild.

The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.

This is a quote from C. S. Lewis. It helped me a lot when I was trying to decide God's will fro me when my emotions were overruling my logic. Feelings come adn go, and when they come, a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.

A heart at peace gives life to the body.

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.