The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

by John Mark Comer

And we are so used to spiritually mediocre days—days lived in irritation and fear and self-preoccupation and frenzy—that we throw our lives away in a hurry.

Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”

Today, you’re far more likely to run into the enemy in the form of an alert on your phone while you’re reading your Bible or a multiday Netflix binge or a full-on dopamine addiction to Instagram or a Saturday morning at the office or another soccer game on a Sunday or commitment after commitment after commitment in a life of speed.

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.

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

There’s a reason people talk about “walking” with God, not “running” with God. It’s because God is love.