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.
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’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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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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