Quotes about Balance
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— St. Augustine
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
— St. Augustine
Let truth spring out of the earth, and righteousness look down from heaven.
— St. Augustine
Lord, have pity on me. My evil sorrows strive with my good joys; and on which side is the victory, I know not.
— St. Augustine
And I saw that all things did harmonize, not with their places only, but with their seasons.
— St. Augustine
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