John Eldredge
John Eldredge
John Eldredgeis an American author, counselor, and lecturer on Christianity. He is known for his bestselling book Wild at Heart...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth6 June 1960
CountryUnited States of America
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I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.
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Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.
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I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.
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'Wild at Heart' created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher's part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable.
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You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.
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In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.
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A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
enormous strength
It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.
became caught christian exposure high home hungry raised religion religious
It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.
cultural debates family
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
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For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.
heart men desire
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
heart worship abandoned
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God