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?
JOHN ELDREDGEWe 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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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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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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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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