A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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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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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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.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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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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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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