It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGESo 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’.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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.
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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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