It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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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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You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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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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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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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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