Quotes by John Eldredge

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

— John Eldredge

Life

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

— John Eldredge

Life

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.

— John Eldredge

Wisdom

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

— John Eldredge

Love

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!

— John Eldredge

Wisdom

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

— John Eldredge

Life

Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

— John Eldredge

Love

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

— John Eldredge

Courage

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

— John Eldredge

Wisdom

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

— John Eldredge

Love

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

— John Eldredge

Life

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

— John Eldredge

Wisdom

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

— John Eldredge

Wisdom

If 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 Eldredge

Wisdom

I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

— John Eldredge

Wisdom

Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

— John Eldredge

Life

The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

— John Eldredge

Wisdom

I 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 Eldredge

Wisdom

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

— John Eldredge

Love

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

— John Eldredge

Success

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

— John Eldredge

Life

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

— John Eldredge

Courage

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

— John Eldredge

Wisdom

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

— John Eldredge

Wisdom