John Eldredge Quotes

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.

I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.

Let us remind ourselves that if we are to be our Lord's disciples, we must take up his Cross and follow him.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

For seven years ancient Israel could not be stopped in the Joshua book. I have found this to be a great imagery and analogy for the Christian life. As Christians, we have the same images. We've come out of Egypt (been saved) we've crossed over, and Jesus Christ is our Moses and our Joshua.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it.

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an example for His followers.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.