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.
JOHN ELDREDGECaring 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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We 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.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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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