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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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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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Psychotherapist
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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!
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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 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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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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.
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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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