We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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There 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.
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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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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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