Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
JOHN ELDREDGECaring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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