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.
JOHN ELDREDGEYou can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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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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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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