The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
JOHN ELDREDGEBut a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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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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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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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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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 don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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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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