I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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.
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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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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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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?
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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