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.
JOHN ELDREDGEDesire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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 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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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What 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.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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