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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

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

Goal Himself Life Man Mission Togetherness 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
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
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Acknowledgement Healing Wound
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

Astonishment Creation God Touch Woman Work
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Courage Greatness Reality Strength 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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Greatness Happiness Knowledge True
So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Bad Heart Known Man Remain Yourself
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
I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Hesitant Man Myself Need Warrior Woman
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Call Desire Heart Man Writing
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Choice Fight Man Warrior
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Fall In Love God Important Person

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