In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
JOHN ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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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 don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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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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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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