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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

John Eldredge

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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Break Children Marriage Passion Pay
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Clear Eyes Heart See
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Gospel Reading Sound Television Turn Watch
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Live Marriage Understand War World Yourself
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Brilliant Disguise Encounter Man Yourself
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Carry Life Man People Wound Yourself
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Carry Contentment Ourselves
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGE

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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Absence Dangerous Presence Security
The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Fake God Reality Yourself
We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Garden Heart Broken Live Sadness Talk
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur

We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

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