Top 200 John Eldredge Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— John Eldredge

52. “Every song you love, every memory you cherish, every moment that has moved you to holy tears has been given to you from the One who has been pursuing you from your first breath in order to win your heart.”

— John Eldredge

53. “One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?”

— John Eldredge

54. “We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.”

— John Eldredge

55. “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.”

— John Eldredge

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

— John Eldredge

57. “We are not inviting – we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.”

— John Eldredge

58. “Don’t climb on that, don’t break anything, don’t be so aggressive, don’t be so noisy, don’t be so messy, don’t make such crazy risks. But God’s design – which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself – is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.”

— John Eldredge

59. “Life needs a man to be fierce – and fiercely devoted. The wounds he will take throughout his life will cause him to lose heart if all he has been trained to be is soft.”

— John Eldredge

60. “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.”

— John Eldredge

61. “In your life you are William Wallace – who else could be? There is no other man who can replace you in your life, in the arena you’ve been called to. If you leave your place in the line, it will remain empty. No one else can be who you are meant to be. You are the hero in your story. Not a bit player, not an extra, but the main man.”

— John Eldredge

62. “Beauty speaks of heaven to come, when all shall be beautiful. It haunts us with eternity. Beauty says, There is a glory calling to you. And if there is a glory, there is a source of glory. What great goodness could have possibly created this? What generosity gave us this to behold? Beauty draws us to God.”

— John Eldredge

63. “Why are so many people struggling with depression and discouragement? They’ve lost heart. Why can’t we seem able to break free of our addictions? Because somewhere along the way, in a moment of carelessness or desperation, we gave our heart away, and now we can’t get it back.”

— John Eldredge

64. “We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.”

— John Eldredge

65. “Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.”

— John Eldredge

66. “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.”

— John Eldredge

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

— John Eldredge

68. “If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.”

— John Eldredge

69. “We are hiding, every last one of us. Well aware that we, too, are not what we were meant to be, desperately afraid of exposure, terrified of being seen for what we are and are not, we have run off into the bushes. We hide in our office, at the gym, behind the newspaper and mostly behind our personality. Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.”

— John Eldredge

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

— John Eldredge

71. “There are no formulas with God. Period. So there are no formulas for the man who follows him. God is a Person, not a doctrine. He operates not like a system – not even a theological system – but with all the originality of a truly free and alive person.”

— John Eldredge

72. “You’re going to be okay. You’re going to find your way. You are not alone.”

— John Eldredge

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

— John Eldredge

74. “You must ask God what he thinks of you, and you must stay with the question until you have an answer. The battle will get fierce here. This is the last thing the Evil One wants you to know.”

— John Eldredge

75. “Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.”

— John Eldredge

76. “And certainly we see that God wants not merely an adventure, but an adventure to share. He didn’t have to make us, but he wanted to. Though he knows the name of every star and his kingdom spans galaxies, God delights in being a part of our lives. Do you know why he often doesn’t answer prayer right away? Because he wants to talk to us, and sometimes that’s the only way to get us to stay and talk to him. His heart is for relationship, for shared adventure to the core.”

— John Eldredge

77. “The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.”

— John Eldredge

78. “Every story has a villain. Every story also has a hero. The Great Love Story the Scriptures are telling us about also reveals a Lover who longs for you. The story of your life is also the story of the long and passionate pursuit of your heart by the One who knows you best and loves you most.”

— John Eldredge

79. “The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come – unguarded, undistracted – and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.”

— John Eldredge

80. “The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”

— John Eldredge

81. “Marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life’s great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.”

— John Eldredge

82. “Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered.”

— John Eldredge

83. “A veil removed, bringing freedom, transformation, glory. Do you see it? I am not making this up – though I have been accused of making the gospel better than it is. The charge is laughable. Could anyone be more generous than God? Could any of us come up with a story that beats the one God has come up with? All the stories that we tell borrow their power from the Great Story he is telling.”

— John Eldredge

84. “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?”

— John Eldredge

85. “A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.”

— John Eldredge

86. “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.”

— John Eldredge

87. “Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time – and it’s killing them.”

— John Eldredge

88. “I’ll let you in on a little secret: your heart is made for the kingdom of God. This might be the most important thing anyone will ever tell you about yourself: your heart only thrives in one habitat, and that safe place is called the kingdom of God.”

— John Eldredge

89. “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.”

— John Eldredge

90. “I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.”

— John Eldredge

91. “And so, dear heart, it is time for your restoration. For there is One greater than your Enemy. One who has sought you out from the beginning of time. He has come to heal your broken heart and restore your feminine soul. Let us turn now to him.”

— John Eldredge

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

— John Eldredge

93. “Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.”

— John Eldredge

94. “To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.”

— John Eldredge

95. “Most people don’t even try to learn the ways of the kingdom; they just go about their days with a practical agnosticism, hoping things work out, tossing up prayers like they hope to score on a Jesus lottery ticket.”

— John Eldredge

96. “He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.”

— John Eldredge

97. “All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.”

— John Eldredge

98. “When it comes to happiness, our soul is like a colander, a tire with a nail in it, our grandfather’s memory. It feels like there is a homeless person inside of us, wandering around pushing a shopping cart.”

— John Eldredge

99. “Who am I really? The answer to that question is found in the answer to another. What is God’s heart toward me, or, how do I affect him? If God is the Pursuer, the Ageless Romancer, the Lover, then there has to be a Beloved, one who is the Pursued. This is our role in the story.”

— John Eldredge

100. “Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered. That’s not the way life was supposed to go.”

— John Eldredge