Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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