Dare to Desire: An Invitation to Fulfill Your Deepest Dreams

by John Eldredge

I think you’ll find that in the heart of every man is the desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

If you’ll have a look around, you will see that most people have abandoned the journey. They have lost heart. They are camped in places of resignation, or indulgence, or trapped in prisons of despair.

Paul doesn’t know what to do now that college is over. He pursued good grades but left his heart behind in the process.

imitation.pornography is so addictive because more than anything else in a lost man’s life, it makes him feel like a man without requiring anything of him.

God will take away our own plans for fulfilling our desires in order to draw us home to him, for only then can he give us what we truly desire without it hurting us.

holiness is not deadness; it is passion.

Killing desire may look like sanctification, but it’s really godlessness— our way of handling life without God. Those who trust God are willing to risk desire.