The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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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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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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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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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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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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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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