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.
JOHN ELDREDGEI don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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 true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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