Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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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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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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