God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
JOHN ELDREDGEWorship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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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 think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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