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.
JOHN ELDREDGEFor 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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 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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