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.
JOHN ELDREDGEA true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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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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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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We 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.
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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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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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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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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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I 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.
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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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