It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
JOHN ELDREDGEAm I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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We 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.
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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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