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?
JOHN ELDREDGEI 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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 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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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