Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
JOHN ELDREDGEThere 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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