Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
JOHN ELDREDGEMy heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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Story is the language of the 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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