Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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