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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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Psychotherapist
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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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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self
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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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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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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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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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