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.
JOHN ELDREDGEWithout the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Story is the language of the heart.
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For 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.
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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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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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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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 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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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