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?
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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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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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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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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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