John Eldredge Quotes

I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor.

The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.

God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.

There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.

When you are wired to God in a unique way, nothing can separate you from the love of God

I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.

He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.

To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

We need to make our faith our very own love story.