A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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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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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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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.
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Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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