Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
JOHN ELDREDGEIn the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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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.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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