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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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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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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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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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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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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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