John Eldredge - Desire 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.

John Eldredge
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.

John Eldredge
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
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
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

John Eldredge
A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

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

John Eldredge