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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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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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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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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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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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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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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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