You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
JOHN ELDREDGEContentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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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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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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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 point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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 don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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