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.
JOHN ELDREDGEFaith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Story is the language of the 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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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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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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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.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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 is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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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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