My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
JOHN ELDREDGERelated Topics
Anand Thakur
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGETo be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
JOHN ELDREDGEI’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.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEWorship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
JOHN ELDREDGEAdventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
JOHN ELDREDGEGod endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIn the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
JOHN ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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