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 ELDREDGEBut a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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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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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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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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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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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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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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