Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGEMost of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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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 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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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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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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