It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
JOHN ELDREDGEGod endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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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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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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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.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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