A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.

— John Eldredge

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.

— John Eldredge

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out toward its fulfillment, and carry us along with it.

— John Eldredge

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

— John Eldredge

For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God’s presence resides? A

— John Eldredge

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage, and then he uses it to transform us.

— John Eldredge

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

— John Eldredge

In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none of us ever really believed the sorcerer was real. We thought we could have the maiden without a fight. Honestly, most of us guys thought our biggest battle was asking her out. And second, we have not understood the tower and its relationship to her wound; the damsel is in distress. If masculinity has come under assault, femininity has been brutalized. Eve is the crown of creation, remember? She embodies the exquisite beauty and the exotic mystery of God in a way that nothing else in all creation even comes close to. And so she is the special target of the Evil One; he turns his most vicious malice against her. If he can destroy her or keep her captive, he can ruin the story.

— John Eldredge

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

— John Eldredge

It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.

— John Eldredge