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.
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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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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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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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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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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 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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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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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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