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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThey 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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 true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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