Quotes from John Eldredge

Of course our prayers are limited by our sin. If you want powerful prayers, get the sin out of your life.

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.

The spirit of our day is a soft acceptance of everything—except deep conviction in anything.

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

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.

Second, we chose to believe Christ is already within us, and we remind ourselves of this marvel. The springs of life well up from within.

Jesus, I give my hope to your true and certain return, and the renewal of all things.

Salvation is a process, not an event.

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

When I pull into the driveway at the end of the day. I don't have to leap from the car; I can take a moment. I turn the engine off, sometimes lay my head down on the steering wheel, and just breathe. I try to let go of the day.

After I finish a phone call and before I start something else, I simply pause. When I pull into work in the morning and when I pull into my driveway in the evening, I pause.

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.