John Eldredge Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Eldredge
John Eldredge Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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.
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.
Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?
Of course our prayers are limited by our sin. If you want powerful prayers, get the sin out of your life.
You learn a great deal about the true nature of a person in the way they love, why they love, and, in what they love.
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
And so a man's heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places.
God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
The world has been wrong about you. They've hated your glory - just as the Evil One hates the glory of God. But we need your gift. Come forth.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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.
A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.
Most men spend the energy of their lives trying to eliminate risk, or squeezing it down to a more manageable size.
We don't get to stay in hiding until we are whole; Jesus invites us to live as an inviting woman now, and find our healing along the way.
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.
The beauty is that as you become more whole, you can become holier. And as you become holier, you can become more whole.
All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.
There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.
They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
He is on a mission to rescue a people who are so utterly deceived most of them don't even want to be rescued.
For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God's presence resides? a
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
Don't picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.
We don't need accountability groups; we need fellow warriors, someone to fight alongside, someone to watch our back.
Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.
One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage.
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family,
Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life.
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.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive.