It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGE
If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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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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