Quotes from John Eldredge

The ability to hope and dream.

Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results.

Friend, Christ has bestowed on you an identity. The best thing you can do is ask him to reveal it to you.

You can find that life—if you are willing to embark on a great adventure.

He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

And as for her beauty, she either hides it in fear and anger, or she uses it to secure her place in the world.

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. (James 5: 14—15 UPDATED NIV)

Friend, you must be intentional about holding on to the truth.

Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," and it seems nothing has changed.

What sort of tale have I fallen into? is a question that would help us all a great deal if we wondered it for ourselves.

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.

So you turn from your independence and all the ways you either charge at life or shrink from it; this may be one of the most basic and the most crucial ways you repent.