It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGEGod endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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 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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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