Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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