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 ELDREDGETruth 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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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.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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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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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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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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