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.
JOHN ELDREDGEYou 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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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 don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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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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