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.
JOHN ELDREDGE
To 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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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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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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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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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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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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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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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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