John Eldredge (born June 6, 1960, in Los Angeles) is an American author, counselor, and lecturer on Christianity. He is known for his best-selling book Wild at Heart.
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked. ' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.
You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.
To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.