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?
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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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 are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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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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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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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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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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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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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