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 ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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