Quotes from An Unhurried Life by Alan Fadling

"To walk with God you must go at a walking pace"--Wang Mingdao (p.14)

"The one who hurries delays the things of God"--St. Vincent de Paul (p. 15)

"It is hearing the voice of God in the midst of the quiet that helps us to live and work well. Instead of being a guarantee of fruitfulness, overwork can become a guarantee against it." (p.49)

"Good work grows best in the cycle of good rest" (p. 50)

"Gratitude is one gift that gets squeezed out when we let materialism speed up our lives" (p. 64)

Thoughts on Meditation and Communion with God

"In 2008 Americans were consuming three times the information than they did every day in 1960" (p. 21)

"The typical computer user at work checks emails or changes windows or other programs at least 26 times every hour" (p. 22)

The challenge of dealing with information overload in an Internet age is a very visible manifestation of a larger cultural problem: The rushed nature of modern life and a cult of speed, efficiency and production" (p.23)

The historic Christian practice of meditating on Scripture is, of course, just such an example of 'slow reading.' In the face of today's rushed lives and information overload, such slow reading of the Word of God seems more important than ever. (p.24)