Quotes from John Eldredge

the rooted person is able to meditate—give sustained attention to—the revelation of God. Not swipe, not multitask. Lingering focus.

All of us are partly living our story line the enemy offers us. Most of us, perhaps, live in not a terribly evil place in the moralistic sense of the word. We simply live where busyness, or apathy, or struggle with circumstances that won't change occupies most of our energy. And the enemy is perfectly happy to leave us in such a place practicing our religion.

There is a satisfaction we don't want to come to until we come to it in God....[Disappointments] serve to remind us every day that we cannot make life work the way we want....If we'll let it, the disappointment can be God's way of continually drawing us back to himself.

If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.

Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life. Truth

When it comes to the moral question, it is not simply whether we say yes or no to desire, but always what we do with desire. Christianity recognizes that we have desire gone mad within us. But it does not seek to rectify the problem by killing desire; rather, it seeks the healing of desire, just as it seeks the healing of every other part of our human being.

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness.

Samson becomes a great and terrible warrior when, and only when, the Spirit of God comes upon him. The rest of the time he's just short of an idiot. What does this story tell us about the God whose Spirit this is?

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

The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.

What have we to offer, really, other than who we are and what God has been pouring into our lives? It was not by accident that you were born; it was not by chance that you have the desires you do. The Victorious Trinity has planned on your being here now, "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). We need you.

Joseph Nicolosi

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What's Wrong with the World)

You really won't understand your life as a woman until you understand this: You are passionately loved by the God of the universe. You are passionately hated by his Enemy.

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

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

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

Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of our lives become opportunities for initiation.

The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.

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?

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who have had their hearts enlarged by suffering.

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

He woos, he confronts, he delivers, he heals, he shoots straight, and then he uses intrigue. He lives out before them the most compelling view of God, shows them an incredibly attractive holiness while shattering the religious glaze. But still, he lets them walk away if they choose.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."2