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.
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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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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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There 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.
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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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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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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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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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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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I’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.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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