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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

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.
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Break Children Marriage Passion Pay
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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Character Kind Motive Theatre Try Understand
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Gospel Reading Sound Television Turn Watch
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Fake God Reality Yourself
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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 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

Anand Thakur
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Dangerous Hurt Live Vulnerable Woman
I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Help Integrity Live Myself Theory Writing
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Adventure Dangerous Man Soul Spirituality
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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?
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Design God Help Ourselves Place Woman

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

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