Balance

If we sacrifice some of our love of God when we try to love our neighbor, we (and they, ultimately) are the worse for it.
- Sean McMains

It is good that you grasp one thing, and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them
- Eccl 7:18 NASB

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

A man works in his head, but he lives in his heart.
- Chip Dodd

you are all sons of the Most High. But you will die like mere men.
- Psalm 82:6b-7a

A Christian's life contains both the promise of heaven and sonship in Christ as well as the fate of death and that we live a life apart from God. He is with us, but we are not yet fully with Him.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Quality

A man skilled in his work will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.
- Proverbs 22:29

Wisdom

The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable, but the mouth of fools spouts folly.
- Proverbs 15:2

Discipline

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
- Hosea 6:6

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- Proverbs 15:8

The goal of discipline is not sacrifice, but relationship with God.

Greatness

One's greatness can be measured by others' ease at taking you for granted.

A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice ... The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself, and thinking about worship is a different thing from worshipping.
- C.S. Lewis, "Letters to Malcolm"

Humility

Never allow yourself this thought, "I am of no use where I am," because you certainly cannot be used where you have not yet been placed.
- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest (Oct 17th entry)

Arts

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing taste, interests, and capacity of his audience. ... Haughty indifference to them is not genius nor integrity; it is laziness and incompetence.
- C.S. Lewis, from his essay, "Good Work And Good Works" published in: "The World's Last Night" (out of print)

Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
- C.S. Lewis, "The Great Divorce"

American popular culture does not embrace this certification of art as work. Indeed the word 'art' is rarely used at all. The preferred signifier is the word 'entertainment', which correctly conveys that the aspirations are generally escapist, nostalgic, or anodyne. Entertainment promises to make you feel better, to help you forget your troubles, to liberate you from having to think. Even when entertainment touches deep feelings, it does so as a gesture of reassurance, a combination of sentiment and sloganeering. This is what most people say they want, and the market lets them have it without anyone in a position of intellectual or social leadership telling them that they should ask more of themselves--and might benefit thereby.
- William A. Henry III, "In Defense of Elitism"

To attract and keep an audience, art must entertain, but the significance of any art lies in its ability to express truths--to reveal and help us understand our world.
- Bill Watterson