Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
JOHN ELDREDGEFalling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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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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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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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.
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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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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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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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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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