But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
JOHN ELDREDGESo 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’.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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We 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.
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