Quotes from John Eldredge

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

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.

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

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

Every 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.

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

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!

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.

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

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

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

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

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

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

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.

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

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

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.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

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

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

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.

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