Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGEI don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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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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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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