To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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What 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.
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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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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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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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