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.
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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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 made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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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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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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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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