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JOHN ELDREDGEA man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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