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.
JOHN ELDREDGEBut a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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