Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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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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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 wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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.
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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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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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