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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.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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Psychotherapist
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Faith looks back and draws courage hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)
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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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He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.
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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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Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self
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We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness it's how we begin to love.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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A 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.
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