A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
JOHN ELDREDGEA 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.
JOHN ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
JOHN ELDREDGEMost of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
JOHN ELDREDGETo be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe real you is on the side of God against the false self.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
JOHN ELDREDGEWhen 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEShe 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 ELDREDGEI 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGEIt is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGEFalling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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’.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
JOHN ELDREDGE