To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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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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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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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.
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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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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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