Reset Quotes

“Many of our problems happen not only because we do the wrong things, but also because we believe the wrong things. Behind many seemingly practical problems are theological problems.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“Creatures, by definition, are less than their Creator. He is infinite, we are finite; he is unlimited, we are limited. Although none of us would say we are unlimited, most of us think we are less limited than we actually are.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“It’s not just the physical that affects the spiritual; it goes the other way as well.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“Retired pastor Al Martin told me that he was frequently contacted by young pastors he had trained who were just months into their ministries. They would say: “Help, Pastor Martin! I can’t pray, I can’t study, I can’t sleep, I can’t go on. I think I’m going to have to resign.” “Here’s your problem,” Pastor Martin would calmly reply. “You’re trying to live like a disembodied angel rather than flesh-and-blood humanity. Here’s your solution: first, exercise vigorously three times a week. Second, take one full day off a week. And third, spend at least one evening a week with your wife.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“In “The ‘Busy’ Trap,” Tim Kreider wrote, “Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“Vivir por gracia y no por obras significa que eres libre de la máquina del rendimiento. Significa que Dios ya te ha aprobado cuando merecías reprobar. Ya te ha pagado por todo un día de trabajo, aunque tal vez hayas trabajado una sola hora. Significa que no necesitas llevar a cabo ciertas disciplinas espirituales para ganar la aprobación de Dios. Jesucristo ya lo ha hecho por ti. Eres amado y aceptado por Dios mediante el mérito de Jesús, y eres bendecido por Dios mediante el mérito de Jesús. Nada de lo que hagas hará que te ame más ni que te ame menos. Te ama absolutamente por la gracia que te ha concedido a través de Jesús117”
― David P. Murray, Reinicia tu vida: Vivir al ritmo de la gracia en una cultura de estrés y agotamiento

“We are all different: we have different limits and different vulnerabilities. As one man said to me, “The straw that broke the camel’s back came at the end of many hammer-blows on the same back.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“Sorrow overload. Pastors especially suffer with this as they deal daily with some of the most excruciating problems of life. At times, these can overwhelm us, especially when Facebook brings the sorrows of innumerable others we hardly know into our lives, exhausting our compassion reserves. “I can develop a sort of emotional hypochondria,” one pastor told me, “taking on too much personal stress from the problems of others.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“Verses like Philippians 4:13—​​​“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”—​​​do not override our basic need to eat, drink, rest, and sleep.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“Here’s your solution: first, exercise vigorously three times a week. Second, take one full day off a week. And third, spend at least one evening a week with your wife.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“Procrastination and indecision dominate as you flit from one thing to another to another with little sense of accomplishment.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

“Brooks also has a fascinating few paragraphs on the relationship between money and happiness. For example, did you know that “people aren’t happiest during the years when they are winning the most promotions. Instead, people are happy in their 20’s, dip in middle age, and then, on average, hit peak happiness just after retirement at age 65.” But he returns to the connection between personal relationships and happiness, and concludes: If the relationship between money and well-being is complicated, the correspondence between personal relationships and happiness is not. . . . According to one study, joining a group that meets even just once a month produces the same happiness gain as doubling your income.”
― David P. Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture