“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.”

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

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.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

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.

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

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.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

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.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

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.

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.

You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.

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.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

Our darkest days were probably infused by the patterns we once needed to protect ourselves. – burden.

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

Our darkest days were probably infused by the patterns we once needed to protect ourselves. – burden.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Nobody’s safe. Health insurance? That didn’t protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.