Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
JOHN ELDREDGESo 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’.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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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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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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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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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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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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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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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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