Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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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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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire 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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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