busyness Quotes

“If I were into you, you would be the bright spot in my horribly busy day. Which would be a day that I would never be too busy to call you.”

“All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. ”

“Though there was nowhere one so busy as he, He was less busy than he seemed to be.”

“Both sin and busyness have the same effect- they cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even to your own soul.”

“Granted, there is a healthy kind of busyness where your life is full with things that matter, not wasted on empty leisure or trivial pursuits.”

“It may be the case that 1. Christians are assimilating to a culture of busyness, hurry and overload, which leads to 2. God becoming more marginalized in Christians’ lives, which leads to 3. a deteriorating relationship with God, which leads to 4. Christians becoming even more vulnerable to adopting secular assumptions about how to live, which leads to 5. more conformity to a culture of busyness, hurry and overload.”

“Corrie ten Boom once said that if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.”

“Yes. We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.”