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.
JOHN ELDREDGEA 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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’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 don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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