But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
JOHN ELDREDGEShe 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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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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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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