Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
JOHN ELDREDGEWithout the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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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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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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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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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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