Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
JOHN ELDREDGEA man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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