It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
JOHN ELDREDGEDesire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
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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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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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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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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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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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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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