A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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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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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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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