Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing. . . . Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.
--Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Your Sabbath
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
--Evelyn Underhill, quoted in Marin H. Manser, ed., The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations
Hurry always empties a soul.
--Ann Voskamp
Busted, big time. It's going to take a whole lot of grace to help me change my wasteful, amateurish, empty habits!
1 comment:
I had those highlighted too. :)
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