She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
JOHN ELDREDGETruth 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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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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