A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
JOHN ELDREDGEA true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
JOHN ELDREDGEChristianity 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!
JOHN ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
JOHN ELDREDGEA man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
JOHN ELDREDGEAm I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
JOHN ELDREDGEFaith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
JOHN ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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.
JOHN ELDREDGETo be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIt 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe real you is on the side of God against the false self.
JOHN ELDREDGEIn the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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