Quotes about Balance
The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
— Robert Barron
Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
— CS Lewis
My goal is to speak the truth in love. There are a lot of people speaking the truth with no love, and there are a lot of people talking about love without much truth.
— Shane Claiborne
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
— Victor Hugo
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
— Pope John Paul II
If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.
— Alistair Begg
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.
— Randy Alcorn
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
— Dorothy Sayers
Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.
— Andy Stanley