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?
JOHN ELDREDGEShe 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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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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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of 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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