Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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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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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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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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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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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