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.
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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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For 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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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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