When 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 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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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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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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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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.
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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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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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