Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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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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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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