Quotes about Relationships
The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships.
— John Eldredge
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
— John Eldredge
Sartre felt that Hell is other people, but precisely the opposite is true. Hell is being left alone forever with no other reality than your own consciousness of yourself. It is being locked in a casket of your own internal chaos with no hope of a window, or door leading in light from outside to give you a moment's respite from yourself. Hell is the refusal of the gift of the other.
— John Eldredge
The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol — The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.
— 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.
— John Eldredge
We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.
— John Eldredge
Now every daughter of Eve want to control her surrounding, her relationships, her God. No longer is she vulnerable; now she will be grasping. No longer does she want simply to share in the adventure; she wants to control it.
— John Eldredge
Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
— John Eldredge
The worst blows typically come from family.
— John Eldredge
we were made to be a part of a great adventure. An adventure that is shared. We do not want the adventure merely for adventure's sake but for what it requires of us for others. We don't want to be alone in it; we want to be in it with others.
— John Eldredge
Sex can be such a stark barometer for a marriage.
— John Eldredge
Femininity can never bestow masculinity.
— John Eldredge