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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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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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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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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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