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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

John Eldredge

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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
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
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Carry Life Man People Wound Yourself
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
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Control Guard Invitation Ourselves Security
The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
JOHN ELDREDGE

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

Clear Eyes Heart See
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
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Absence Dangerous Presence Security
They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Choice Fight Man Warrior
God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Comparison Creation Glory God Pale

We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

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