Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGEWorship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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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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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.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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