Quotes about Balance
Material betterment has gone hand in hand with spiritual decline.
— J. Gresham Machen
Wisdom gives a leader balance and helps to avoid eccentricity and extravagance. If knowledge comes by study, wisdom comes by Holy Spirit filling. Then a leader can apply knowledge correctly. "Full of wisdom" is one of the requirements for even subordinate leaders in the early church (Acts 6:3).
— J. Oswald Sanders
Truth is important, but truth at the cost of loving relationships is not Christianity. And relationships that ignore truth will lose integrity sooner or later.
— Dan Boone
Whatever the tradition is, if that tradition becomes more important than the mission of seeing people come to know Jesus, then it's time for the whip.
— Dan Kimball
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
— Marquis de Sade
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
— Marquis de Sade
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
— Os Guinness
Anger is not wrong. But if anger is uncontrolled, stuffed, misplaced, or given full vent, then anger can do us a lot of harm.
— Louie Giglio
Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The constant challenge in Christian theology is to preach the whole counsel of God, while not emphazing one point of doctrine in a way that denies another.
— Joel Beeke
When we possess solely a head knowledge, two things can happen: (1) we are easily susceptible to hype or emotionalism, or (2) we are bound by our intellect.
— John Bevere
Should I not partake of anything the world consumes? If so, how can I live and function in this world?
— John Bevere