We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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The 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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I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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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.
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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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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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