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.
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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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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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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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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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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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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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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