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.
JOHN ELDREDGEFalling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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