But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
JOHN ELDREDGE
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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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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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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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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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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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