John Eldredge Quotes
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Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.
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We're told that you can have a relationship with Jesus, but most Christians don't experience Jesus personally like that. They just don't. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him. We don't experience Him and His personality like we do the people we love the most in our lives.
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
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'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.
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For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.
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Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
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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.
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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.
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The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.
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The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
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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.
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We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
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I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
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I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.
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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.