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.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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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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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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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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