John Eldredge Quotes

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.