309 Quotes by John Eldredge

This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.

If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

When we are in the darkness, we begin to feel like we have always been there. But it is not true. David reminds himself that God has been faithful in the past; God will be faithful again. He urges himself to put his hope in God because the morning will come.

… always making sure I was present when anything was going on. I feared that if I missed any opportunity, the magic would come while I was not there and I would miss it forever.

The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.

God has set within you a femininity that is powerful and tender, fierce and alluring.