Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
JOHN ELDREDGEIt 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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 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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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