Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe real you is on the side of God against the false self.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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