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.
JOHN ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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We 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.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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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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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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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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