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.
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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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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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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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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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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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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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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