We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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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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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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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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