Brady Boyd > Quotes

“Wayne Muller wrote, “If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath—our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“Ultimately, every problem I see in every person I know is a problem of moving too fast for too long in too many aspects of life.”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“Pause on all that needs to happen in their world and simply surrender to rest. “To keep Sabbath means to stop,”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“Letting ourselves be who we really are is a key step in living a life at rest.”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. —Albert Einstein”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“Tim Kreider, writer of “The ‘Busy’ Trap” article, said: “Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets.”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“unless I commit myself to minding my mind, I defer to the distraction every time.”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“We don’t have to abandon our convictions to engage in substantive conversation with people who see the world differently than we do,”
― Brady Boyd, Speak Life: Restoring Healthy Communication in How You Think, Talk, and Pray

“Grace was in their grasp, but the Pharisees didn’t have eyes to see. They missed out on a life-changing moment because Jesus wasn’t doing things the way they had always been done.”
― Brady Boyd, Sons and Daughters: Spiritual orphans finding our way home

“God willingly enters our mess.”
― Brady Boyd, Sons and Daughters: Spiritual orphans finding our way home

“There is more to life than increasing its speed. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“For so long, I was the guy standing in judgment of anyone and everyone who didn’t appear to be working as hard and as long as I did, people who had the audacity to take time off or call a workday complete as soon as their eight hours were up. When you need to be needed, you’ll willingly sign up for slavery like that.”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul

“resting from people’s expectations of me—I was able to respond with maturity and grace.”
― Brady Boyd, Addicted to Busy: Recovery for the Rushed Soul