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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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGEAm I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
JOHN ELDREDGEDeep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
JOHN ELDREDGEAdventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
JOHN ELDREDGEI 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEHenri 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
JOHN ELDREDGEMy heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
JOHN ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIt 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 ELDREDGEA 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEEve 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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