Quotes from John Eldredge

For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.

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.

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.

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

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

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

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

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.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.

A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.

You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

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

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

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.

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

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

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