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.
JOHN ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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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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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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