Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
JOHN ELDREDGEA 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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