John Mark Comer Quotes

″‘What do I need to do to become the me I want to be?’ ‘You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.‘”

“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.”

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

“The problem isn’t when you have a lot to do; it’s when you have too much to do and the only way to keep the quota up is to hurry.”

“Hurry and love are incompatible.”

“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.”