Story is the language of the heart.
JOHN ELDREDGEThere 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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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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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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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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