Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.

We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

At the end of the day, we should all be trying to spread love and positivity, and that's what faith continues to do for me. It keeps me balanced.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

There is moderation in everything.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

The best things are placed between extremes.

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.