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

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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

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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

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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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

JOHN ELDREDGE

In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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End Performance
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

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.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

JOHN ELDREDGE

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.

JOHN ELDREDGE

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Astonishment
Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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Anand Thakur
If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

JOHN ELDREDGE

If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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Anand Thakur
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

JOHN ELDREDGE

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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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

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

Image
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Abandonment Worship
Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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

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
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

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.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.

JOHN ELDREDGE

A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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Goal
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

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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