It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
JOHN ELDREDGEIn the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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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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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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