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This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not. So you ride your bike to work, or drive a hybrid car - but -- John Eldredge
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For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical. -- John Eldredge
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Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable. -- John Eldredge
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny. -- John Eldredge
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There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory. -- John Eldredge
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In the end, it doesn't matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished - a life without heart is not worth living. -- John Eldredge
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Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart. -- John Eldredge
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There is a satisfaction we don't want to come to until we come to it in God ... [Disappointments] serve to remind us every day that we cannot make life work the way we want ... If we'll let it, the disappointment can be God's way of continually drawing us back to himself. -- John Eldredge
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One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright. -- John Eldredge
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Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed. -- John Eldredge
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Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives. -- John Eldredge
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Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about being long-suffering-no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk. -- John Eldredge
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You have only one life to live.It would be best to live your own. -- John Eldredge
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Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives in he'll resent her for it, and she in turn will wonder where the passion has gone. -- John Eldredge
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In one of the greatest invitations ever offered to man, Christ stood up amid the crowds in Jerusalem and said, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever -- John Eldredge
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We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation. -- John Eldredge
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Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father. -- John Eldredge
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So if you are writing a story where love is the meaning, where love is the highest and best of all, where love is the point, then you have to allow each person a choice. -- John Eldredge
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You learn a great deal about the true nature of a person in the way they love, why they love, and, in what they love. -- John Eldredge
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Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing. -- John Eldredge
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You clean and organize; you demand perfection - did you ever wonder why? -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than a sinner saved by grace. -- John Eldredge
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When it comes to helping another human being, you can treat the symptoms or you can treat the cause. Most people dabble in symptom management, and that is why most people don't seem to be getting better. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by. -- John Eldredge
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Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce. But the soul refuses to be harnessed; it knows nothing of Day Timers and deadlines and P&L statements. The soul longs for passion, for freedom, for life. -- John Eldredge
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Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction. No more. Much more. Is this not God's prescription for us? Just take a look around. -- John Eldredge
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If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage. -- John Eldredge
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God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us. -- John Eldredge
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I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy. -- John Eldredge
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Who am I really? The answer to that question is found in the answer to another. What is God's heart toward me, or, how do I affect him? If God is the Pursuer, the Ageless Romancer, the Lover, then there has to be a Beloved, one who is the Pursued. This is our role in the story. -- John Eldredge
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The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify. -- John Eldredge
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. -- John Eldredge
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When we are in the darkness, we begin to feel like we have always been there. But it is not true. David reminds himself that God has been faithful in the past; God will be faithful again. He urges himself to put his hope in God because the morning will come. -- John Eldredge
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This is the time for a young man to stop saying, "Why is life so hard?" He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Genuine holiness restores human beings; restored human beings possess genuine holiness. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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No wonder when he steps into the heavens to accept the throne the cry goes up, "Worthy! Worthy! Worthy! Make him king!" This man is so worthy. -- John Eldredge
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You're going to be okay. You're going to find your way. You are not alone. -- John Eldredge
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And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living. -- John Eldredge
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A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love. -- John Eldredge
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Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation. -- John Eldredge
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He woos, he confronts, he delivers, he heals, he shoots straight, and then he uses intrigue. He lives out before them the most compelling view of God, shows them an incredibly attractive holiness while shattering the religious glaze. But still, he lets them walk away if they choose. -- John Eldredge
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Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to be a disciple. After all
aren't we 'followers of Christ'? Then by all means, let's actually follow him. Not ideas about him. Not just his principles. Him. -- John Eldredge
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Most people don't even try to learn the ways of the kingdom; they just go about their days with a practical agnosticism, hoping things work out, tossing up prayers like they hope to score on a Jesus lottery ticket. -- John Eldredge
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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God ... [The heart] is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts. -- John Eldredge
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I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives. -- John Eldredge
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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'. -- John Eldredge
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Secret of the warrior-heart of Jesus. Second, a warrior is cunning. He knows when to fight and when to run; he can sense a trap and never charges blindly ahead; -- John Eldredge
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We are, all of us, utterly committed and deeply devoted to our "style", our "way", our "approach to life." We have absolutely no intention of giving it up. Not even for love. So God creates an environment where we have to. It's called marriage. -- John Eldredge
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This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time. -- John Eldredge
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We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15) -- John Eldredge
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History is riddled with blood and sin. -- John Eldredge
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Our hope is that all is well because of Jesus and that all will be well because of Him. -- John Eldredge
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Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life. -- John Eldredge
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This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages. -- John Eldredge
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We interpret Jesus through our brokenness. A painful truth, but also a hopeful truth. Maybe we can open up the doors and windows we didn't know we closed. -- John Eldredge
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How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What's Wrong with the World) -- John Eldredge
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Because she bears the image of God. She doesn't have to conjure it, go get it from a salon, have plastic surgery or breast implants. No, beauty is an essence that is given to every woman at her creation. -- John Eldredge
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Until a man learns to deal with the fact that life is hard, he will spend his days chasing the wrong thing, using all his energies trying to make life comfortable, soft, nice, and that is no way for any man to spend his life. -- John Eldredge
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it. -- John Eldredge
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You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him. -- John Eldredge
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Made in the image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure. -- John Eldredge
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'Wild at Heart' created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher's part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable. -- John Eldredge
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The Lover of our souls, the One who has pursued us down through space and time, who gave his own life to rescue us from the Kingdom of Darkness, has made it clear: He does not want to lose us. He longs for us to be with him forever. -- John Eldredge
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Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is. -- John Eldredge
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The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him. -- John Eldredge
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do. -- John Eldredge
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Now every daughter of Eve want to "control her surrounding, her relationships, her God." No longer is she vulnerable; now she will be grasping. No longer does she want simply to share in the adventure; she wants to control it. -- John Eldredge
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If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat. -- John Eldredge
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You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in. -- John Eldredge
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Most of the contexts are life and death, by the way, and God is your only hope. Your ezer. If he is not there beside you ... you are dead. A better translation therefore of ezer would be "lifesaver." Kenegdo means alongside, or opposite to, a counterpart. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Frodo could not be a hero unless he was born into a story with many chapters already played out before his own. His moment derives its weight and urgency from the moments that have come before. -- John Eldredge
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Every story has a villain. Every story also has a hero. The Great Love Story the Scriptures are telling us about also reveals a Lover who longs for you. The story of your life is also the story of the long and passionate pursuit of your heart by the One who knows you best and loves you most. -- John Eldredge
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Most men spend the energy of their lives trying to eliminate risk, or squeezing it down to a more manageable size. -- John Eldredge
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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other
moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun. -- John Eldredge
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Here's the test - if you can't take your church culture and language and drop it in the middle of a bar or a bus, and have it make winsome sense to the people there, then it's not from Jesus. Because that is exactly what he could do. That's what made him the real deal. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation. -- John Eldredge
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Every song you love, every memory you cherish, every moment that has moved you to holy tears has been given to you from the One who has been pursuing you from your first breath in order to win your heart. -- John Eldredge
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Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of? -- John Eldredge
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The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul. -- John Eldredge
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Marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest. -- John Eldredge
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You can find that life - if you are willing to embark on a great adventure. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Samson becomes a great and terrible warrior when, and only when, the Spirit of God comes upon him. The rest of the time he's just short of an idiot. What does this story tell us about the God whose Spirit this is? -- John Eldredge
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Story is the language of the heart. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life. -- John Eldredge
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'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails. -- John Eldredge
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The world has been wrong about you. They've hated your glory - just as the Evil One hates the glory of God. But we need your gift. Come forth. -- John Eldredge
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The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment. -- John Eldredge
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Restored in you, to be renewed in you, to receive from you -- John Eldredge
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Of course our prayers are limited by our sin. If you want powerful prayers, get the sin out of your life. -- John Eldredge
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A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough. -- John Eldredge
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For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart. -- John Eldredge
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Hope is a fruit of proven character. -- John Eldredge
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A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come. -- John Eldredge
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed. -- John Eldredge
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The hardest, gladdest thing in the world is to cry Father! from a full heart . . . the refusal to look up to God as our father is the one central wrong in the whole human affair; the inability, the one central misery. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic. -- John Eldredge
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The worst blows typically come from family. -- John Eldredge
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own. -- John Eldredge
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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. -- John Eldredge
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The word Christ uses for "life" is the word psyche - the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life - those are the things that will actually destroy us. -- John Eldredge
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An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. -- John Eldredge
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He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road. -- John Eldredge
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All the stories we've been telling about the presence of an evil power in the world, all the dark characters that have sent chills down our spines and given us restless nights - they are spoken to us as warnings.
There is evil cast around us ... there is an evil force in this world. -- John Eldredge
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I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) -- John Eldredge
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We're told that you can have a relationship with Jesus, but most Christians don't experience Jesus personally like that. They just don't. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him. We don't experience Him and His personality like we do the people we love the most in our lives. -- John Eldredge
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Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of our lives become opportunities for initiation. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you. -- John Eldredge
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One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from? -- John Eldredge
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Most Christians have lost the life of their heart and with it, their romance with God. -- John Eldredge
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There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior. -- John Eldredge
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What man is a man who does not make the world better? -- John Eldredge
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Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage. -- John Eldredge
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All men die; few men ever really live. -- John Eldredge
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Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate. -- John Eldredge
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It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply. -- John Eldredge
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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison. -- John Eldredge
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. -- John Eldredge
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The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything. -- John Eldredge
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If you do not know the power of his indwelling life in you, shaping your personality, healing your brokenness, enabling you to live as he did - you have been plundered. This is why we pray, -- John Eldredge
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The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me. -- John Eldredge
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It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity. -- John Eldredge
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As Buechner says, we are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest. -- John Eldredge
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus. -- John Eldredge
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We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us. -- John Eldredge
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I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies. -- John Eldredge
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When it comes to happiness, our soul is like a colander, a tire with a nail in it, our grandfather's memory. It feels like there is a homeless person inside of us, wandering around pushing a shopping cart. -- John Eldredge
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into. -- John Eldredge
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spirit - we know there is something special, even sacramental about sex. It -- John Eldredge
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Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing. -- John Eldredge
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Adventure requires something of us, puts us to the test. Though we may fear the test, at the same time we yearn to be tested, to discover that we have what it takes. -- John Eldredge
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We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety. -- John Eldredge
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We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man. -- John Eldredge
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Despite what many modern educators would say, this is not a psychological disturbance brought on by violent television or chemical imbalance. Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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The heart," Blaise Pascal said, "has its reasons which reason knows not of. -- John Eldredge
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey. -- John Eldredge
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Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on. -- John Eldredge
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How wonderful to discover that God has never been alone. He has always been Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God has always been a fellowship. This whole Story began with something relational. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost. -- John Eldredge
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Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out. -- John Eldredge
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We don't need accountability groups; we need fellow warriors, someone to fight alongside, someone to watch our back. -- John Eldredge
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Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life. -- John Eldredge
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And so a man's heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places. -- John Eldredge
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We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart. -- John Eldredge
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He created Adam for adventure, battle and beauty; he created us for a unique place in his story and he is committed to bringing us back to the original design. -- John Eldredge
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The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man who can be entrusted with those dreams; -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts? -- John Eldredge
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The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market. -- John Eldredge
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Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men. -- John Eldredge
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The reason there are so many struggling women is because there were so many wounded girls. -- John Eldredge
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The beauty is that as you become more whole, you can become holier. And as you become holier, you can become more whole. -- John Eldredge
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Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves. -- John Eldredge
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The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you. -- John Eldredge
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self -- John Eldredge
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A Perfect World. Kevin Costner -- John Eldredge
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Life is a hypocrite if I can't live The way it moves me! -- John Eldredge
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The glory of God is man fully alive. (Saint Irenaeus) -- John Eldredge
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He is on a mission to rescue a people who are so utterly deceived most of them don't even want to be rescued. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage. -- John Eldredge
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, life to the limit. -- John Eldredge
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war. -- John Eldredge
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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? -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Words are important. Words shaper our perceptions. When they define, they can also distort. There is a far better way to describe this man whose face is the most human face of all. Jesus is beautiful. -- John Eldredge
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We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.8 -- John Eldredge
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results. God -- John Eldredge
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There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys. -- John Eldredge
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise. -- John Eldredge
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As Robert Bly laments in Iron John, Some women want a passive man if they want a man at all; the church wants a tamed man - they are called priests; the university wants a domesticated man - they are called tenure-track people; the corporation wants a ... sanitized, hairless, shallow man. -- John Eldredge
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him ... -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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If you had permission to do what you really want to do, what would you do? -- John Eldredge
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In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows, -- John Eldredge
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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, -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God's presence resides? a -- John Eldredge
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Life needs a man to be fierce - and fiercely devoted. The wounds he will take throughout his life will cause him to lose heart if all he has been trained to be is soft. -- John Eldredge
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive. -- John Eldredge
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Don't picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Why are so many people struggling with depression and discouragement? They've lost heart. Why can't we seem able to break free of our addictions? Because somewhere along the way, in a moment of carelessness or desperation, we gave our heart away, and now we can't get it back. -- John Eldredge
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We don't get to stay in hiding until we are whole; Jesus invites us to live as an inviting woman now, and find our healing along the way. -- John Eldredge
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Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack? -- John Eldredge
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The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn. -- John Eldredge
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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. -- John Eldredge
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I never tell lies, but I am a savage. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school. -- John Eldredge
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You are radiant this evening. You are absolutely breathtaking. -- John Eldredge
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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing! -- John Eldredge
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal. -- John Eldredge
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You can't fight a battle you don't think exists. -- John Eldredge
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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love. -- John Eldredge
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We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy. -- John Eldredge
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I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view. -- John Eldredge
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Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time - and it's killing them. -- John Eldredge
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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All of the happiness we have ever known and all of the happiness we hope to find is unreachable without a heart. -- John Eldredge
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If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair. -- John Eldredge
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The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem. -- John Eldredge
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The key to receiving answers to prayers for guidance is to let go of our constant attempt to "figure things out." Really, -- John Eldredge
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You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda. -- John Eldredge
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Your feminine heart has been created with the greatest of all possible dignities - as a reflection of God's own heart. -- John Eldredge
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We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus. -- John Eldredge
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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. -- John Eldredge
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Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered. That's not the way life was supposed to go. -- John Eldredge
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I am looking for my heart. -- John Eldredge
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As D. H. Lawrence said, I am not a mechanism. -- John Eldredge
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The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man. -- John Eldredge