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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIn the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
More John Eldredge Quotes
-
-
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
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 ELDREDGE -
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE