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.
JOHN ELDREDGEInstead 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?
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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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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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.
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