Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
JOHN ELDREDGEReading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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We 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.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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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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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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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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