Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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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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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 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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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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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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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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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