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 ELDREDGEDesire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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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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