Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGEAdventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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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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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.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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