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 ELDREDGEWe are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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.
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We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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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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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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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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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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