We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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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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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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