God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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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The 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.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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