Quotes about Connection
All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart.
— John Eldredge
God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and the mundane, the meetings and the memos, the laundry and the lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you pour yours into his.
— John Eldredge
Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?
— John Eldredge
We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.
— John Eldredge
If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.
— John Eldredge
Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life.
— John Eldredge
My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.
— John Eldredge
One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?
— John Eldredge
The most essential gift you have to give is yourself.
— John Eldredge
And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.
— John Eldredge
The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.
— John Eldredge
Essential prayer is conversational.
— John Eldredge