Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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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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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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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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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 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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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