Top 50 Eric Ludy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.”

— Eric Ludy

2. “The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.”

— Eric Ludy

3. “As for God, His way is perfect. PSALM 18:30.”

— Eric Ludy

4. “When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life’s boat.”

— Eric Ludy

5. “When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.”

— Eric Ludy

6. “Jesus didn’t just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn’t just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.”

— Eric Ludy

7. “Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.”

— Eric Ludy

8. “Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God.”

— Eric Ludy

9. “The way a man treats a woman, he explianed, is a relfection of his relationship with God. Thats why i say, a woman is the proving ground for a man. You can determine a mans quiality by watching him with a woman.”

— Eric Ludy

10. “You don’t have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.”

— Eric Ludy

11. “But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble.”

— Eric Ludy

12. “We’ve been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.”

— Eric Ludy

13. “My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.”

— Eric Ludy

14. “If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.”

— Eric Ludy

15. “God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.”

— Eric Ludy

16. “But the commission is now. The time to speak is when the Spirit of God boils the message so hot within you that it must come out. The time to write is when God Almighty presses his thumb against your heart and forces the words out like a steaming geyser.”

— Eric Ludy

17. “Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement!”

— Eric Ludy

18. “Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God’s word.”

— Eric Ludy

19. “Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.”

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20. “Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.”

— Eric Ludy

21. “When we leave the pen in His hands we will never be disappointed with the story of our lives.”

— Eric Ludy

22. “I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own...”

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23. “The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.”

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24. “The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn’t dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy’s entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.”

— Eric Ludy

25. “If you are longing for something more than the hit-and-run relationship cycle, something beautiful and meaningful in your life, then I’m going to lay it on the line. You must let go of the captain’s position in your life and trust Him. You must give up the little you’re hanging on to now to gain something infinitely greater. You must let go of the helm and let Him lead.”

— Eric Ludy

26. “We mustn’t claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King’s Mighties don’t shy away from the blazing searchlight of God’s Word, but rather, willingly expose their souls and cry, ‘Dear King, if there be anything that stands between You and me, if there be anything that shrouds Your glory, if there be anything that will weaken my sword in battle, purge it, slay it, utterly destroy it!”

— Eric Ludy

27. “If God is going to write your loves story, He’s going to first need your pen.”

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28. “There is absolutely no excuse to stay where you are at right now. If you are weak, He can make you strong. If you are timid He can make you brave. If you are a pervert, He can make you pure. If you are selfish, He can make you selfless. if you are a shepherd, He can make you a king. If you are mediocre, He can make you a Mighty One of valor.”

— Eric Ludy

29. “For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.”

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30. “And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God’s interests. It’s devious, it’s deceitful, it’s self-indulgent. It’s interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin.”

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31. “There are two ways each of us can approach life: spending our days meeting our needs or looking for ways to meet others’ needs. The mystery is that when we spend our life focused on our own needs, we are never satisfied... but when we pour out our life and focus on how we can serve others... our deepest needs are met as well!”

— Eric Ludy

32. “Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.”

— Eric Ludy

33. “Inviting God to write the chapters of our loves story involves work on our part – not just a scattered prayer here and there, not merely a feeble attempt to find some insight by flopping open the Bible every now and then. It’s seeking Him on a daily basis, putting Him in first place at all times, discovering His heart.”

— Eric Ludy

34. “God made it clear to me that if He were concerned about His reputation, He would not have chosen someone like me to represent Him in the first place. And if He were pursuing popularity, He would not have allowed Himself to be hung naked between two thieves on a cross.”

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35. “Find the meaning of life in me. Find your value and confidence in me. Find your purpose and direction in me. Find the source for all spiritual achievement in me. Find the strength to live each moment in me. Find the wisdom to navigate the many turns of life in me. Find forgiveness for all your sins in me. Find the satisfaction of boundless joy in me. Find the most satisfying life for all eternity in me.”

— Eric Ludy

36. “Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.”

— Eric Ludy

37. “Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!”

— Eric Ludy

38. “We need Christians who don’t try to match God’s words to their experience, but rather, whose experience is corrected, elevated, and altered by the Word’s penetrating perfection.”

— Eric Ludy

39. “I won’t give my heart to another girl until God shows me it’s my wife.”

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40. “I’m glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.”

— Eric Ludy

41. “The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.”

— Eric Ludy

42. “No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don’t create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!”

— Eric Ludy

43. “Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.”

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44. “If there is no scent of Christ’s love on someone, then they bear no evidence of true devotion to Christ.”

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45. “Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.”

— Eric Ludy

46. “You’re looking for counselors, there are 66 in the Bible.”

— Eric Ludy

47. “Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.”

— Eric Ludy

48. “A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.”

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49. “Even though my Sunday school upbringing had taught me that God loved me, inwardly I always suspected that maybe He was more interested in making me miserable than in blessing me.”

— Eric Ludy

50. “Remember the infamous question that most of us learned back in the days of youth group powwow sessions? That’s right. How far is too far? Which is really a code question asking, “How much can I get away with and not make God mad?” Let’s start asking a new question: “How far can I possibly go to bring joy to the heart of my heavenly Father in this area of my life?”

— Eric Ludy