Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Anand Thakur
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
JOHN ELDREDGEMy heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
JOHN ELDREDGEAdventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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.
JOHN ELDREDGECaring 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.
JOHN ELDREDGESo 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’.
JOHN ELDREDGEHenri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
JOHN ELDREDGEThere 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEStory is the language of the heart.
JOHN ELDREDGEChristianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
JOHN ELDREDGEA man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
JOHN ELDREDGEMost of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
JOHN ELDREDGEThey 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEWe think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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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