It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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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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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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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.
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