John Ortberg

And what is life but a series of moments?

I’m still in my marriage, but it’s duty, not delight.

“As go the leaders, so goes the church.”

They are too alive to die, and too dead to live.

if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.

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.

To walk with Jesus is to walk with a slow, unhurried pace.
Hurry is the death of prayer and only impedes and spoils our work.
It never advances it.

When the sun set our rhythms of work and rest, it did so under the control of God; but the clock is under the control of the employer, a far more demanding master.

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

But an even more precious resource is attention.
Without it our spiritual lives are stillborn in the womb.