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 ELDREDGEWe 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.
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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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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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