It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGEEvery 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.
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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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You 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.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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.
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