Story is the language of the heart.
JOHN ELDREDGEI’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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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 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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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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I 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.
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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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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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