Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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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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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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