Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
JOHN ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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 is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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