Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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 true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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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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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.
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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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