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 ELDREDGEYou can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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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.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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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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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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 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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