John Eldredge Quotes

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.