John Eldredge
John Eldredge
John Eldredgeis an American author, counselor, and lecturer on Christianity. He is known for his bestselling book Wild at Heart...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth6 June 1960
CountryUnited States of America
finals lasts finishing
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.
heal wounds
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
heart long stories
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
running contentment desire
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
quality duration limits
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.
men encounters brilliant
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
wounds
But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
men good-man ruth
Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.
couple race needs
Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.
jesus home joy
An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
jesus personality followers
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.
suicide strong wine
A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
play fog important
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.
falling-in-love important god-love
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.