Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
JOHN ELDREDGEEternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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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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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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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