A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
JOHN ELDREDGEA man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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 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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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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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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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