Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
JOHN ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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