Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
JOHN ELDREDGEContentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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