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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.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.
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Henri 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.
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Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.
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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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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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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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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness it's how we begin to love.
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We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.
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Faith looks back and draws courage hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father.
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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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How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)
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We 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.
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.
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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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