One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

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