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.
JOHN ELDREDGEYou 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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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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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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