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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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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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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.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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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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I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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