What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
JOHN ELDREDGEI 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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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.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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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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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 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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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