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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIn the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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