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.
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.
More John Eldredge Quotes
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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So 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’.
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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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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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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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