We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
JOHN ELDREDGETo be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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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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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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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 real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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