There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
JOHN ELDREDGEWorship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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 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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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