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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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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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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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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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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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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