A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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A 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.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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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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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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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 point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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