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.
JOHN ELDREDGEEve 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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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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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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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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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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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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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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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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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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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