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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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
JOHN ELDREDGEFor 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEA man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
JOHN ELDREDGEWithout the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
JOHN ELDREDGEWorship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
JOHN ELDREDGEYou 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThere 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.
JOHN ELDREDGESo long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
JOHN ELDREDGEStory is the language of the heart.
JOHN ELDREDGEEternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
JOHN ELDREDGETo 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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