Instead 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?
JOHN ELDREDGEChristianity 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!
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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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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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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