Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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I 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.
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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
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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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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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