A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
JOHN ELDREDGEA man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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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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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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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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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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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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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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