John Eldredge Quotes

Each of us is a masterpiece of God's creation

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Nature is the art of God.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

Man did not evolve but was created.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer ago than six thousand years the world did not exist

Since no man was present when it pleased God to create the world, we must look for a reliable account of creation to God's own record, found in God's own book, the Bible.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

We can all mouth the words that every human is fundamentally worthy, but we don't act like it. We don't even believe it about ourselves.

The Bible gives a true and trustworthy account of creation, and that account in no way conflicts with or contradicts an old-Earth view, and vice versa.

I believe that God created the Earth. I wasn't there, I don't know how long it took. I don't know how he did it exactly.

I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.

We're special because God created us, and that goes for any race.

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Today, decide not to speak negatively about yourself. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God’s very own creation.