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.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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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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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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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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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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