Resilient Quotes

“Jesus, I come back to you now in my longing for life to be good again. I love you here, Lord, in my soul’s longings, desires, and heartaches. I consecrate to you my Primal Drive for Life. I surrender to you my ability to aspire for good things, plan for them, take hold of them, enjoy them, and keep on aspiring. I consecrate all living in me to you, Lord Jesus; I give you my famished craving for life to be good again. I love you here. I love you right here. And now I ask that the river of your life would flow in me, in my Primal Drive for Life and in my longing for life to be good again. I open my heart and soul to the river of life. Let it flow in me, through me, and all around me—restoring, renewing, and healing me. You alone are the life I seek, and I welcome your river into my heart and soul; I receive the river of your life in me. Thank you, God! In your mighty name I pray.”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“Salvation is a process, not an event.”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“We are living in a story, friends. A story written and being unfolded by the hand of God. Despite what the world is shouting”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“As Jesus began to explain the trials of the final hours, the urgency of his warnings increased: You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. (Matthew 10:22) The one who stands firm to the end will be saved. (Matthew 24:13) By your endurance you will gain your lives. (Luke 21:19 ESV) Endurance—the dividing line between those who make it through any sort of trial and those who don’t. Hang on, don’t get discouraged—this isn’t just gutting it out. Not at all. The beautiful resilience Jesus offers us comes from his resources; endurance is imparted to us.”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“For the followers of Jesus, the real finish line is either the return of Jesus or our homecoming to him.”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“God can handle your anger, disappointment, even bitterness. But walking away from Jesus is forsaking your only hope out of the heartache.”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“Jesus also used this illustration: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough” (Matthew 13:33 NLT). Yeast gets into the dough and slowly works its way through the entire batch. The promise is this: the goodness of Jesus will work its way through your entire being. Jesus is the yeast,”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“You’ve got to release the world; you’ve got to release people, crises, trauma, intrigue, all of it. There has to be sometime in your day where you just let it all go. All the tragedy of the world, the heartbreak, the latest shooting, earthquake—the soul was never meant to endure this. The soul was never meant to inhabit a world like this. It’s way too much. Your soul is finite. You cannot carry the sorrows of the world. Only God can do that. Only he is infinite. Somewhere, sometime in your day, you’ve just got to release it. You’ve got to let it go. .”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him” (2 Chronicles 16:9 NLT).”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“I have counseled thousands of men and women, and I can tell you with utter confidence—both from their experiences and my own—that whatever else the enemy brings against you, he will always bring with it a feeling of I don’t want to fight this. This feeling is called ennui, a weariness of spirit, a malaise, that sense of I just don’t want to fight anymore. This is Kierkegaard’s sickness unto death, by which he meant “intensified doubt, super-doubt, mega-doubt.”5 And this feeling is not your true heart. Friends,”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“set your phone alarm so that three times a day you stop, love God, and give him your allegiance. I love you, God. I love you, God. I love you. I give you my allegiance. I choose you over all things. Give me the strength that prevails.”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times

“Remember—the battle right now is for the narrative; who gets to frame the story for you? Either it will be God, or someone else. If you are “alarmed,” something has drawn your attention away from the story of God. Let your fears, anxieties, anger, or rage alert you that you’ve been taken hostage; stop and get your bearings.”
― John Eldredge, Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times