Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGE
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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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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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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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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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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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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