Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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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.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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