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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe real you is on the side of God against the false self.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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