We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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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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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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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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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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