The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
JOHN ELDREDGEWithout the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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