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.
JOHN ELDREDGETo be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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