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.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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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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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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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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