Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
JOHN ELDREDGEI don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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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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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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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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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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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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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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