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 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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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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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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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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’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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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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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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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