Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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 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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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