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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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