The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
JOHN ELDREDGEDesire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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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 true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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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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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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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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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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