Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGEReading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGEWorship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
JOHN ELDREDGEMy heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
JOHN ELDREDGEA true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
JOHN ELDREDGEA man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
JOHN ELDREDGETruth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEDeep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
JOHN ELDREDGEI don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
JOHN ELDREDGEMost of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
JOHN ELDREDGEYou can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
JOHN ELDREDGEAdventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
JOHN ELDREDGE