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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
JOHN ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEA true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe real you is on the side of God against the false self.
JOHN ELDREDGEFaith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
JOHN ELDREDGEIt is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
JOHN ELDREDGEThere is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
JOHN ELDREDGEI’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.
JOHN ELDREDGEMy heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
JOHN ELDREDGEFor after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
JOHN ELDREDGEA man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE