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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

John Eldredge

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Herself Man Offering Strength Woman
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
Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
JOHN ELDREDGE

Design God Help Ourselves Place Woman
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Battle Family Fight Home Life Man Transcendence
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Desire Life Live Whisper Worth
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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
If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Awakening Fierce Growth Purpose Quality Warrior
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Absence Dangerous Presence Security
Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Beginning Care Heart Love Selfish
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Face Human Material Nature Reality Spiritual War World
Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Adventure Fake Life Rescue Truth
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
What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Audience Crowd Himself Person Play Remark Strike True

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