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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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Psychotherapist
Writer
LA
California
Reveals
Destiny
Design
Desire

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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.
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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.
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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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You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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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.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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