Story is the language of the heart.
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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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So 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’.
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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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If 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.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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!
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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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