I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
JOHN ELDREDGE
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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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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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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