“Most men spend the energy of their lives trying to eliminate risk, or squeezing it down to a more manageable size.” — John Eldredge Men Spend Copy Share Image
“Child,” said the Voice, “I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.” — John Eldredge Children Copy Share Image
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires. — John Eldredge Calling Copy Share Image
“Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation.” — John Eldredge Sins Copy Share Image
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war. — John Eldredge Fair Copy Share Image
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own. — John Eldredge Choices Copy Share Image
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation. — John Eldredge About Copy Share Image
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal. — John Eldredge Heal Copy Share Image
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure.… — John Eldredge Adventure Copy Share Image
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed… — John Eldredge Broken Copy Share Image
In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't… — John Eldredge African Copy Share Image
“to enter into a journey of initiation with God requires a new set of questions: What are you trying to teach me… — John Eldredge Initiation Copy Share Image
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows… — John Eldredge Assault Copy Share Image
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to… — John Eldredge Arms Copy Share Image
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like… — John Eldredge Adventure Copy Share Image
There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey .… — John Eldredge Elusive Copy Share Image
“Jesus lived the way he did in this world, for this world, because his hope was set beyond this world; that is… — John Eldredge Hebrews Copy Share Image
“As Robert Bly laments in Iron John, “Some women want a passive man if they want a man at all; the church… — John Eldredge Feminism Copy Share Image
We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing… — John Eldredge Alive Copy Share Image
“You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run… — John Eldredge Community Copy Share Image
“If we would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God… — John Eldredge Courage Copy Share Image
“...few things can mess you up as badly as trying to do your best. For the tender heart, the earnest heart, it… — John Eldredge Christian life Copy Share Image
Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to… — John Eldredge Christ Copy Share Image
“You cannot force people to walk with God. You cannot force them to repent. All you can do is live with integrity… — John Eldredge Confrontation Copy Share Image
“When God creates Eve, he calls her an ezer kenegdo. “It is not good for the man to be alone, I shall… — John Eldredge Bible Copy Share Image
“True strength does not come out of bravado. Until we are broken, our life will be self-centered, self-reliant; our strength will be… — John Eldredge Life Copy Share Image
“most men have a hard time sustaining any sort of devotional life because it has no vital connection to recovering and protecting… — John Eldredge Devotional Copy Share Image
“To recover his heart’s desire a man needs to get away from the noise and distraction of his daily life for time… — John Eldredge Daily life Copy Share Image
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you… — John Eldredge Love Copy Share Image
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies. — John Eldredge Cultural Copy Share Image
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. — John Eldredge Courage Copy Share Image
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in. — John Eldredge Around Copy Share Image
“We don’t need accountability groups; we need fellow warriors, someone to fight alongside, someone to watch our back.” — John Eldredge Accountability Copy Share Image
Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he… — John Eldredge Courage Copy Share Image
Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men. — John Eldredge Men Copy Share Image
“We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.” — John Eldredge Goodness Copy Share Image
'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men. — John Eldredge Came Copy Share Image
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. — John Eldredge Gospels Copy Share Image
We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart. — John Eldredge Clearly Copy Share Image
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