Quotes by John Eldredge

About John Eldredge:

John Eldredge is an American author, counselor, and lecturer on Christianity. He is known for his bestselling book Wild at Heart.
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Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

John Eldredge

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

John Eldredge

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

John Eldredge

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

John Eldredge

We are, all of us, utterly committed and deeply devoted to our "style", our "way", our "approach to life." We have absolutely no intention of giving it up. Not even for love. So God creates an environment where we have to. It's called marriage.

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So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.

John Eldredge

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into...

John Eldredge

When it comes to happiness, our soul is like a colander, a tire with a nail in it, our grandfather's memory. It feels like there is a homeless person inside of us, wandering around pushing a shopping cart.

John Eldredge

You cannot force people to walk with God. You cannot force them to repent. All you can do is live with integrity and invite them to do so as well. Take things a step at a time. Give them consequences when they refuse to deal with serious issues, and ...

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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

John Eldredge

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

John Eldredge

It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.

John Eldredge

Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.

John Eldredge

If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage.

John Eldredge

Marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

John Eldredge

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

John Eldredge

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

John Eldredge

The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.

John Eldredge

The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.

John Eldredge

Prayer is such an intimate act, a place of vulnerability. It is, hopefully, when we are our least guarded, our most honest selves. And this is good, of course; this is as it ought to be. When we come to God, we certainly want to come as honestly and ...

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You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

John Eldredge

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Eldredge
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJune 6, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Psychotherapist