Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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