309 Quotes by John Eldredge

Worship is what we give our hearts away to in return for a promise of Life.

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.

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify.

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.

For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart.

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.

In the spacious love of God, our souls can lie down and rest. This love from him is not something we must struggle for, earn, or fear to lose. It is bestowed. He has bestowed it upon us. He has chosen us. And nothing can separate us from his love. Not even we, ourselves. We are made for such a love. Our hearts yearn to be loved intimately, personally, and yes, romantically. We are created to be the object of desire and affection of one who is totally and completely in love with us. And we are.

Your feminine heart has been created with the greatest of all possible dignities – as a reflection of God’s own heart.