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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

John Eldredge

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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
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
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
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
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Dangerous Hurt Live Vulnerable Woman
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Alive Desire Faith Hope
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

Anand Thakur
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
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

Break Children Marriage Passion Pay
There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Face Human Material Nature Reality Spiritual War World
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
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
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
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Adventure Dangerous Man Soul Spirituality
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

Garden Heart Broken Live Sadness Talk

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