Top 200 John Eldredge Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— John Eldredge

152. “I am looking for my heart.”

— John Eldredge

153. “Prayer is such an intimate act, a place of vulnerability. It is, hopefully, when we are our least guarded, our most honest selves. And this is good, of course; this is as it ought to be. When we come to God, we certainly want to come as honestly and openly as we can; we want to be our truest selves before him. Prayer lets us be in a place of need.”

— John Eldredge

154. “A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.”

— John Eldredge

155. “Our lives are not a random series of events; they tell a Story that has meaning.”

— John Eldredge

156. “Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the “experts” prattle on and on.”

— John Eldredge

157. “You clean and organize; you demand perfection – did you ever wonder why?”

— John Eldredge

158. “We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.”

— John Eldredge

159. “We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.”

— John Eldredge

160. “Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable.”

— John Eldredge

161. “We are, all of us, utterly committed and deeply devoted to our “style”, our “way”, our “approach to life.” We have absolutely no intention of giving it up. Not even for love. So God creates an environment where we have to. It’s called marriage.”

— John Eldredge

162. “I believe Christianity is at its core a gospel of life. I believe great breakthrough and healing are available. I believe we can prevent the thief from ransacking our lives if we will do as our Shepherd says. And when we can’t seem to find the healing or the breakthrough, when the thief does manage to pillage, I believe ours is a gospel of resurrection. Whatever loss may come, that is not the end of the story. Jesus came that we might have life.”

— John Eldredge

163. “It is not love to ignore your spouse’s sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.”

— John Eldredge

164. “The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God’s vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships.”

— John Eldredge

165. “Pause when you are offered beauty and make the conscious decision, I receive this grace. We open our clenched soul to let it in. To find God in it. I will often pray, Thank you for this beauty. I receive it into my soul. And with it I receive you, in it, by it, through it – your love, your goodness, your life.”

— John Eldredge

166. “Touch nature. I’m serious – every day, your soul needs to engage creation.”

— John Eldredge

167. “In one of the greatest invitations ever offered to man, Christ stood up amid the crowds in Jerusalem and said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever.”

— John Eldredge

168. “Wildness, open spaces, and animals living in utter freedom are all good for our humanity. Sometimes we need geography to usher soul into spaciousness, lightheartedness.”

— John Eldredge

169. “We don’t get to stay in hiding until we are whole; Jesus invites us to live as an inviting woman now, and find our healing along the way.”

— John Eldredge

170. “The passage is not about trying to save your skin by ducking martyrdom or something like that. The word Christ uses for “life” is the word psyche – the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life – those are the things that will actually destroy us.”

— John Eldredge

171. “This is why the “apply some principles” approach to marriage improvement doesn’t work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.”

— John Eldredge

172. “God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and the mundane, the meetings and the memos, the laundry and the lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you pour yours into his.”

— John Eldredge

173. “No wonder when he steps into the heavens to accept the throne the cry goes up, “Worthy! Worthy! Worthy! Make him king!” This man is so worthy.”

— John Eldredge

174. “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? a.”

— John Eldredge

175. “We talk about unplugging, but we’re enchanted – by the endless social media circus of love and hatred, the vapid, alarming, sensational, and unforgivable. We’re snagged by every new notification. And while we’ve always had our individual struggles and heartbreaks to deal with, now we have the tragedies of the entire world delivered to us hourly on our mobile devices. This is all very hard on the soul. Traumatizing, in fact.”

— John Eldredge

176. “Our hearts are telling us the truth – there really is something missing! The.”

— John Eldredge

177. “Ask Jesus to show you your beauty. Ask him what he thinks of you as a woman. His words to us let us rest and unveil our beauty.”

— John Eldredge

178. “Honestly, I think most people live their daily lives along a spectrum from slightly rattled to completely fried.”

— John Eldredge

179. “When your phone chirps or vibrates, don’t react. Make it wait till you pick it up. In these small ways I’m making my phone a tool again, something that serves me instead of the other way around.”

— John Eldredge

180. “The truth of the gospel is intended to free us to love God and others with our whole heart. When we ignore this heart aspect of our faith and try to live out our religion solely as correct doctrine or ethics, our passion is crippled, or perverted, and the divorce of our soul from the heart purposes of God toward us is deepened. The.”

— John Eldredge

181. “Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.”

— John Eldredge

182. “Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers’ quarrel through the apartment wall.”

— John Eldredge

183. “To lose hope has the same effect on our heart as it would be to stop breathing.”

— John Eldredge

184. “Todo hombre anhela que lo elogien y que encima de eso, le paguen bien.”

— John Eldredge

185. “If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage.”

— John Eldredge

186. “Encounter weather whenever you can. Don’t hide from it; experience it.”

— John Eldredge

187. “Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.”

— John Eldredge

188. “Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?”

— John Eldredge

189. “Pray for people who are in a better situation than you are, who are more gifted than you are, or who currently have wonderful circumstances coming their way. Rejoice with those who rejoice. Pray for someone else’s promotion, someone else’s pregnancy, someone else’s healing. That crucifies envy.”

— John Eldredge

190. “The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.”

— John Eldredge

191. “When we taste something that we think is good, our longings cease to ache, for a minute, but later we find ourselves empty once more, needing to be filled again and again.”

— John Eldredge

192. “You must guard your heart with everything you’ve got, especially in times of disappointment and pain. Your secret weapon against the enemy’s hatred is to love God right then and there, in the midst of the sorrow, whatever it may be.”

— John Eldredge

193. “Yes, a man is a dangerous thing. So is a scalpel. It can wound or it can save your life. You don’t make it safe by making it dull; you put it in the hands of someone who knows what he’s doing.”

— John Eldredge

194. “Given the way creation unfolds, how it builds to ever higher and higher works of art, can there be any doubt that Eve is the crown of creation?”

— John Eldredge

195. “I realize that many dear followers of Christ have been taught that God only speaks to his sons and daughters through the Bible. The irony of that theology is this: that’s not what the Bible teaches! The Scriptures are filled with stories of God speaking to his people – intimately, personally. Adam.”

— John Eldredge

196. “As C. S. Lewis wrote, “A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.”2 This is where our sin and our culture have come together to keep us in bondage and brokenness, to prevent the healing of our wounds.”

— John Eldredge

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

— John Eldredge

198. “Beauty is one of the richest graces God has provided to heal our souls and absorb his goodness.”

— John Eldredge

199. “Salvation is a process, not an event.”

— John Eldredge

200. “Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a few have learned that is is not our enemy either.”

— John Eldredge