Worship & Theology: Hurry and the Spiritual Life

What do I need to do to stay healthy and spiritually alive?

Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
― Kosuke Koyama

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
— John Ortberg

We have become a people who think we have to fit God in rather than fit in with what God is doing. Time has ceased to be perceived as a gift in which we participate; now it seems to have a life of its own.
— John Swinton

The Sabbath rest of God is the acknowledgment that God and God’s people in the world are not commodities to be dispatched for endless production and so dispatched, as we used to say, as “hands” in the service of a command economy. Rather they are subjects situated in an economy of neighborliness. All of that is implicit in the reality and exhibit of divine rest.
— Walter Brueggeman

Stressed Out Pastor: What do I need to do to stay healthy and alive spiritually?
Dallas Willard: You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
Stressed Out Pastor: That’s a good one. I’m writing that down. What else?
Dallas Willard: There is nothing else.
— Dallas Willard

A family takes a walk amid fallen autumn leaves.
Dad lifts up his five-year-old son,
and the boy showers him with kisses.
Mom watches with a smile on her face.
If we take time to look around,
we see ourselves surrounded by lovely moments.
— Haemin Sunim