Quotes from John Eldredge

He didn't make Adam from polyester, but from the dust of the earth, and he didn't set him down at the mall, but in the outdoors, in nature. The created world, with all its beauty and diversity and wildness, this is the world God intended for us to live in relationship to.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

I simply align myself with you again today.

Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.

The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him" (2 Chronicles 16:9 NLT).

I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High. My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you. (Ps. 9: 1–3 NLT)

As you practice release, what you're doing is creating soul space. You're literally carving out the intellectual and emotional space for God to come in

Somehow, somewhere between our youth and yesterday, efficiency has taken the place of adventure.

Jesus, thank you that you are right here. You are with me, and you are in me.

I give the Self Life to you, God. I abandon it, release it, deny it, turn it over to you. I'd much rather have you.

The recovery of the warrior is absolutely crucial to the recovery of a man. All else rests on this, for you will have to fight, my brothers, for everything you desire and everything you hold dear in this world. Despite what you feel, or what you may have been told, you have a warrior's heart, because you bear the image of God. And he will train you to become a great warrior, if you'll let him.

Pressure nearly always guarantees you will have a hard time discerning what God is saying, if you hear anything at all. Pressure

Jesus, I surrender the Self Life to you.

stop doubting and believe?" (John 20:27). Thomas had a decision to make in that moment, a decision he was quite capable of making, a decision our Lord was waiting for him to make. Thomas's experience was waiting on a choice.

I am surrendering it, turning it over to Jesus, relinquishing its every right.

But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds," declares the LORD, "because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares." (Jer. 30:16–17)

Make no room for offense.

respectable channels of religion. Consider this one piece of evidence: millions of people who have spent years attending church, and yet they don't know God. Their heads are filled with stuffing about Jesus, but they do not experience him, not as the boys did on the beach. There are millions more who love Jesus Christ but experience him only occasionally, more often stumbling along short of the life he promised, like Lazarus still wrapped in his graveclothes.

Cultivate admiration.

aún así, hay una esencia que Dios le ha dado a cada mujer.

As Athanasius said, "He became what we are that we might become what he is.

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

Dios ha establecido dentro de ti una femineidad que es poderosa y tierna, fiera y encantadora.

Story is how we figure things out, bring order and meaning to the events around us. The story we hold at any given time shapes our perceptions, hopes, and expectations; it gives us a place to stand.