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.
JOHN ELDREDGEI’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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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