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

John Eldredge

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
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
The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Fake God Reality Yourself
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
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
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.
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Anand Thakur
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 Creation God Touch Woman Work
The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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Dangerous Death Earth Live Man
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Character Kind Motive Theatre Try Understand
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
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

Accomplishment End Heart Live Performance
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
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
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Absence Dangerous Presence Security
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
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

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