Quotes about Balance
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
- Joseph Heller
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
- Aristotle
My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.
- Audrey Hepburn
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
- Joseph Addison
Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.
- Henry Cloud
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
- Epicurus
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
- Samuel Johnson
Some people worry that prayer may lead to passivity, that we will retreat to prayer as a substitute for action. Jesus saw no contradiction between the two: he spent long hours in prayer and then long hours meeting human needs.
- Philip Yancey
Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?
- Philip Yancey
When the church joined with the state, it tended to wield power rather than dispense grace.
- Philip Yancey
When the church has occasion to set the rules for all society, it often veers toward the extremism
- Philip Yancey
As a Jewish rabbi put it, A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, 'I am but dust and ashes.' On the other, 'For my sake was the world created.' And he should use each stone as he needs it.7-11
- Philip Yancey