Story is the language of the heart.
JOHN ELDREDGEDesire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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 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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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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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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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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We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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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 created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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