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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.
John Eldredge
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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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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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We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.
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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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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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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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