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.
JOHN ELDREDGEYou 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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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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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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I 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.
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