To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
JOHN ELDREDGEWhat strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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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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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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