Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
JOHN ELDREDGEFaith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know 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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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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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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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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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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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