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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

John Eldredge

We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
JOHN ELDREDGE

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

Alive Desire Faith Hope
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
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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God Heart Himself
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
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
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
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Knowledge True
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGE

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

Beginning Care Heart Love Selfish
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
The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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
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

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