Quotes from John Eldredge
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
- John Eldredge
A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
- John Eldredge
You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.
- 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
Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
- John Eldredge
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
- 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
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
- John Eldredge
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
- John Eldredge
The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.
- John Eldredge
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
- John Eldredge
The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.
- John Eldredge