Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
JOHN ELDREDGETo be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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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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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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