John Eldredge Quotes

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

There can be no security where there is fear.

In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

People want security in this insecure world.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

Anything can be justified by security.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.

Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.

Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Here in my car, I feel safest of all, I can lock all the doors.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.

Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

Safe is just another word for scared.