Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
JOHN ELDREDGEGod endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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