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.
JOHN ELDREDGEBut a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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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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We 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.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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