What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
JOHN ELDREDGEIt takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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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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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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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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