Balancing Life's Demands Quotes

“Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice.
Learn how to pray, and do it.
Discover what pride is, and get rid of it.
Develop a self-concept that is adequate and accurate.
Clarify your values.
Identify your talents.
Probe the fact, meaning, and use of your sexuality.
Face the fact that you engage in self-deception.
Reflect on truth that you are made in the image of God.
Use your spiritual gift.
Clear your conscience.
Feel deeply.
Enjoy life.
Face death.
Treat your body right.
Conquer the flesh.
Depend on the Holy Spirit.
Be humble.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Just as we can play beautiful music only when the strings on the violin are in proper tension, so we can grow only when we are stretched from what we are to what we can be. There is no growth without tension.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“The prescription for perplexed people who are tempted to be pessimistic is to rejoice, do good, and recognize that our ability to work, eat, and drink is the gift of God.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“The world is a treadmill, and we are being pulled backward on it if we aren't consciously walking forward.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Yes, yes, yes we say,
without a thought for the day.
Running and fretting to make ends meet
rushing from Susie to Joe and to Pete.
Our lives, in upheaval, have turned to a tizzy,
never completing, because we're too busy.
All we must do for a tranquil soul
is employ a word, just one, called NO.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love yourself?
The same way. By doing what's best for you.
How do you find out what's best for you?
Read the Word of God.
Then how do you love yourself?
By doing what the Word of God says.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“I feel compelled to clarify, simplify, and personalize truth.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Too much of a good thing can be bad. After all, you can drown even in clear, clean, pure water.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Our part in life may seem small, but it should bulk large in our thought when we remember that it is helping to complete the plan of the Divine Architect.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“This is a hard chapter for me to write. I am as uninvolved in biblical citizenship as other Christians. Involvement means front-line duty. Front-line duty means you get shot at. When it comes to getting shot at, I am your basic, Christian coward. I don't like to fight. I don't like to get hit. I don't like to get hurt. I know that as long as I am uninformed and uninvolved, I am safe. I don't have to suffer. Then I read 1 Peter. It tells me that a Spirit-filled, Word-orientated saint will be on the front lines, doing what is right, and suffering. It is hard for me to read and think and discuss in the realm of politics. There are other things I would rather do. It is hard for me to take a firm, intelligent stand on a political issue. It is even harder for me to make it public, and defend it, and have it criticized and ridiculed. In the area of government my comfort zone is way behind the front lines. How about yours? Maybe what we both need to do is volunteer for some front line duty while we are still allowed to carry weapons.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“But love doesn't do what's easy. Love does what's necessary and right.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“All the words that appear in the inner circle are attributes of God. To develop a relationship with Him we must know the implications of each for our lives. We need truth. His Word contains it. We need the ability to understand the truth. His Spirit will teach us. We need strength to cope with inner turmoil. His is omnipotent. We need a model to follow. Christ is God in human form. We need standards. He is righteous. We need acceptance. He is love. We need to know who is in charge. He is.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“J.I. Packer says that we have "conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God." We have "allowed God to become remote." Christians who don't have an expanding, deepening knowledge of God are like players who have no coach, no rule book, no game schedule, no playing field, no training program. They are depending on one thing to win - uniforms.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Growth ought to simplify life. Right? Wrong. The more truth I assimilate, the more I am aware of what I should be and do. You know what this produces? Tension. God-imposed tension! The growing, obedient Christian will always live with this kind of pressure.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Christian life differently.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“We may get so fixed on one area that we neglect everything else. Life becomes like a tire with a bald spot that is ballooning and ready to blow out. That makes the going rough. For everybody. Long before the blow out.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Sometimes our needs drive us to the Word; sometimes the Word alerts us to our needs.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“It is important that you know who you are, where you stand, where you came from, what you have, what you can do, and who is with you.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Many options are not transparent. They need to be explored and evaluated with care. What you see is not always what you get.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities