Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
JOHN ELDREDGEFalling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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