John Mark Comer on SummaryShelfhttps://summaryshelf.app/authors/john-mark-comer/Recent content in John Mark Comer on SummaryShelfHugoen-usThu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern Worldhttps://summaryshelf.app/ruthless-elimination-of-hurry/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/ruthless-elimination-of-hurry/<p>In the late 1990s, John Ortberg — then on staff at Willow Creek, one of the most influential churches in the world — phoned the philosopher Dallas Willard and asked what he needed to do to become the person he wanted to be. After a long silence, Willard told him to ruthlessly eliminate hurry from his life. Ortberg asked what else. Willard said there was nothing else: hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.</p>