God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
JOHN ELDREDGEInstead 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?
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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 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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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 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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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?
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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