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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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 reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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 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’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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