Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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.
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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’.
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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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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.
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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.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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.
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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.
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