John Eldredge Quotes

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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
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
We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.

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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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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

John Eldredge
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.

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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
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

John Eldredge
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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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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To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.

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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.

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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
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

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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
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.

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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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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
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

John Eldredge
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him...

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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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We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

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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