It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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