John Eldredge Quotes

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.

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than a sinner saved by grace.

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.

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him ...

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?

History is riddled with blood and sin.

The worst blows typically come from family.

We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

Of course our prayers are limited by our sin. If you want powerful prayers, get the sin out of your life.

Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation.

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.

As D. H. Lawrence said, I am not a mechanism.

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows,

Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results. God

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.

The reason there are so many struggling women is because there were so many wounded girls.

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.

Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, life to the limit.

I never tell lies, but I am a savage.

'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Our hope is that all is well because of Jesus and that all will be well because of Him.

The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.

All men die; few men ever really live.

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.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

A Perfect World. Kevin Costner

It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.

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.

Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time - and it's killing them.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.

In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost.

He is on a mission to rescue a people who are so utterly deceived most of them don't even want to be rescued.

We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage.

Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

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.

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

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.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

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.

Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

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

Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.

We don't need accountability groups; we need fellow warriors, someone to fight alongside, someone to watch our back.

You are radiant this evening. You are absolutely breathtaking.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

Genuine holiness restores human beings; restored human beings possess genuine holiness.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.

Restored in you, to be renewed in you, to receive from you

The key to receiving answers to prayers for guidance is to let go of our constant attempt to "figure things out." Really,

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.

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

You have only one life to live.It would be best to live your own.

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.

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,

It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

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.

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.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Most Christians have lost the life of their heart and with it, their romance with God.

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.

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.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

I am looking for my heart.

The beauty is that as you become more whole, you can become holier. And as you become holier, you can become more whole.

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

spirit - we know there is something special, even sacramental about sex. It

We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

You can find that life - if you are willing to embark on a great adventure.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart.