The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

Corrie ten Boom once said that if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy. There’s truth in that. Both sin and busyness have the exact same effect—they cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even to your own soul.

To restate: love, joy, and peace are at the heart of all Jesus is trying to grow in the soil of your life. And all three are incompatible with hurry.

The drive to possess is an engine for hurry.

Our time is our life, and our attention is the doorway to our hearts.

Multitasking is just sleight of hand for switching back and forth between a lot of different tasks so I can do them all poorly instead of doing one well.

One of the best ways to slow down your overall pace of life is to literally slow down your body.

What you give your attention to is the person you become.

If you want to experience the life of Jesus, you have to adopt the lifestyle of Jesus.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Hurry is the root problem underneath so many of the symptoms of toxicity in our world.

Hurry and love are oil and water: they simply do not mix.

To walk with Jesus is to walk with a slow, unhurried pace. Hurry is the death of prayer and only impedes and spoils our work.

The noise of the modern world makes us deaf to the voice of God, drowning out the one input we most need.

We get sucked into the tyranny of the urgent, not the important.

In silence and solitude our souls finally come home.

Desire is infinite partly because we were made by God, made for God, made to need God, and made to run on God.

The Sabbath is the anchor discipline of the people of God. So crucial that God lovingly commands us to remember to rest.