Alan Fadling > Quotes

“Rest is not a place I collapse into when I’ve finally done enough work — it’s the starting place, it’s the way into the well-fitting, easy yoke of Jesus (Matthew 11:25-30). What if we began in rest? Would it be possible to do my work without getting all wound up or collapsing?

Does Jesus seem to you to be all wound up, straining and stressed, as he works? No he’s continually abiding in a place of peace and joy, affirmation and acceptance.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“The Spirit will lead us to places where we live out our trust in God by waiting, not acting.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“In the decades before his ministry begins and in the forty wilderness days, Jesus is willing to wait, and his example calls us to cultivate that same posture before the Father.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“...at its simplest, the opposite of acedia is love - devotion to Christ that produces active, sincere, engaged concern for others. If we let our thoughts wander, the sharpness of our holy concern will be dulled by lust, envy, greed or other unholy, lazy inward impulses.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“When my heart is a hamster wheel, my inner life becomes a blur.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Leader: The Lasting Fruit of Daily Influence

“Blessing is speaking words of substantial goodness to one another that actually bring about that goodness in another’s life. That’s worth saying again: I’m talking about speaking words that bring real goodness and blessing to another.”
― Alan Fadling, Inhaling Grace: A 60-Day Unhurried Living Devotional

“As I think along these lines, I wonder about those people who have expressed disappointment in their years of busyness—their years of faithfully laboring at what they were told would result in their maturity and spiritual growth, only to find that they were more busy than they were rooted in Christ and growing in him. Such dissatisfaction is evidence that there wasn’t much spiritual life in their efforts.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“Elton Trueblood (1900–1994) wrote the following in Confronting Christ: Security is itself a barrier to spiritual growth. The broken and the needy are far closer to the Kingdom than are those who feel adequate and successful. God reaches us most easily when there is a crack in our armor. The barriers of our own making, which effectively exclude us from the Kingdom, are real and in some cases almost insurmountable, but with God all is possible.*”
― Alan Fadling, Inhaling Grace: A 60-Day Unhurried Living Devotional

“We need not have a position of influence to be a person of influence”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Leader: The Lasting Fruit of Daily Influence

“As I think along these lines, I wonder about those people who have expressed disappointment in their years of busyness—their years of faithfully laboring at what they were told would result in their maturity and spiritual growth, only to find that they were more busy than they were rooted in Christ and growing in him. Such dissatisfaction is evidence that there”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“Truly serving others is empowered by the confidence of secure provision and holy belonging.”
― Alan Fadling, Inhaling Grace: A 60-Day Unhurried Living Devotional