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 ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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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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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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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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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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