John Eldredge Quotes

The great test of life is obedience to God.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.

God's desire is that we excel.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Fear God and work hard.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.