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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThey ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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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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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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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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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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