Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If 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.
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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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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.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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 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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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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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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