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Story is the language of the heart.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
Author
Psychotherapist
Writer
LA
California
Story
Language
Stories
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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.
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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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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
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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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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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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.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.
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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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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness it's how we begin to love.
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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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