I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
JOHN ELDREDGEA man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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.
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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Story is the language of the 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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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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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