You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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’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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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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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