But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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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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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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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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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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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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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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