You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
JOHN ELDREDGEMost of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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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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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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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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’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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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