John Eldredge Quotes

But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you

May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

What just resonates with me so strongly is my whole spirituality and the fact that we are, my belief that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.