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.
JOHN ELDREDGEI wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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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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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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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.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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