Quotes about Balance

God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.

When we offend everybody, we've declared truth without grace. When we offend nobody, we've watered down truth in the name of grace. John 1:14 tells us Jesus came full of grace AND truth. Let's not choose between them, but be characterized by both.

If you know you can fall, you make wise choices to keep yourself from falling.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them." —C. S. Lewis

Perhaps you're afraid of becoming "so heavenly minded you're of no earthly good." Relax—you have nothing to worry about! On the contrary, many of us are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly or earthly good.

God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.

We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without the emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

The worldview of the Christian faith is simple enough. God has put enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. The

We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.