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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

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Alive Desire Faith Hope
They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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Call Desire Heart Man Writing
We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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Control Guard Invitation Ourselves Security
Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Care Heart Himself Protection Relationship Voice
When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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Dangerous Hurt Live Vulnerable Woman
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.
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Anand Thakur
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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Carry Contentment Ourselves
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
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
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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Desire Life Live Whisper Worth
There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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Face Human Material Nature Reality Spiritual War World
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Adventure Carry Desire God Image Lying

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.

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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.

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