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 ELDREDGEA man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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 don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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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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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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