walking with God

john eldredge quotes

"To hear the voice of God, we must be in a posture of quiet surrender." (30)

"When it comes to crisis or events that really upset us, this I have learned: you can have God or you can have understanding. Sometimes you can have both. But if you insist on understanding, it often doesn't come. And that can create distance between you and God, because you're upset and demanding an explanation in order to move on, but the explanation isn't coming, and so you withdraw a bit from God and lose the grace that God is giving. He doesn't explain everything. But he always offers us himself." (81)

"Until God has become our all, and we are fully his, we will continue to make idols of the good things he gives us." (87)

"We are so committed to arranging for a happy little life that God has to thwart us to bring us back to himself." (87)

"But pain does come, and what will we do with it? What does it reveal? What might God be up to? How might he redeem our pain? Those are questions worth asking. Don't waste your pain." (88)

"What I am describing is a heart that is present and engaging with God, bringing our desires to him, yet submitting our wills to his, genuinely trusting that what he says is best. That is how we come to learn to remain in him." (92)

"We want to be loved. But we hide from it too, building defenses against it, fortressing ourselves from being hurt again. We settle for a doughnut. Then we wonder why it's hard for us to connect with the love of God, let it in so deep that it heals us, and remain in his love." (94)