The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
JOHN ELDREDGEFaith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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