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 ELDREDGEWhat 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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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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