309 Quotes by John Eldredge

We have grown dull toward this world in which we live; we have forgotten that it is not normal or scientific in any sense of the word. It is fantastic. It is fairy tale through and through. Really now. Elephants? Caterpillars? Snow? At what point did you lose your wonder at it all?

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.

I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.

Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It's why God created us.

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

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

You will not think clearly about your life until you think mythically. Until you see with the eyes of your heart.

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.

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.