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
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit ‘the wild goose.’ And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him. – John Eldredge
Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, ‘My heart is deceitfully wicked.’ No, it’s not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart. – John Eldredge
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
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing! – John Eldredge
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, ‘What makes me come alive?’ Because what the world – a wife, a child – needs is men who have come alive. – John Eldredge
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable. – John Eldredge
It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in ‘religion.’ I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school. – John Eldredge
I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people’s lives. – John Eldredge
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That’s the fellowship that they want to be in. – John Eldredge
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. – John Eldredge
If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity. – John Eldredge
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives. – John Eldredge
When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman. – John Eldredge
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies. – John Eldredge
I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not. – John Eldredge
Where a man’s strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women – the way that he loves. – John Eldredge
The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn. – John Eldredge
We’ve made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We’ve made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man. – John Eldredge
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. – John Eldredge
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
Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing. – John Eldredge
Most of us live in a fog. It’s like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can’t figure out the story. We don’t know what part we’re supposed to play or what the plot is. – John Eldredge
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
