It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
JOHN ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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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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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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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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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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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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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