Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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I 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.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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.
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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 man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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