Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
JOHN ELDREDGESo 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’.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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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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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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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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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 is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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