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new self is born, the place where the emergence of the new man and the new woman occurs.... Solitude is the furnace of transformation.... the place of the great struggle and the great encounter— the struggle against the compulsions of the false self, and the encounter with the loving God who offers himself as the substance of the new self.
What he said here is key. The quiet isn’ t a kind of day spa for the soul, where we book in for a psycho-spiritual massage and mud bath and put cucumbers over our weary eyes to reclaim a bit of our peace.
It isn’ t an escape from our pain, but an encounter with it.
Excerpted from Into the Quiet by John Mark Comer. Copyright © 2026 by John Mark Comer. Published by WaterBrook, an imprint of Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group, LLC. Used by permission.
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John Mark Comer is the founding pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, a teacher and writer with Practicing the Way, and the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including Practicing the Way, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and Live No Lies which has sold more than a million copies and been translated into over twenty languages.
He is a pastor and the founder of Practicing the Way, an organization working to see the renewal of apprenticeship to Jesus in our time. The Comers live in the Santa Monica Mountains just outside Los Angeles. 43