If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
JOHN ELDREDGECaring 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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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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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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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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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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