Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
JOHN ELDREDGEFalling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Story is the language of the heart.
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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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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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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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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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