The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGECaring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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.
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We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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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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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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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.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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If 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.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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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.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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