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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
Author
Psychotherapist
Writer
LA
California
Life
Intents
Shape
Shapes
Thoughts
Persons
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Heart

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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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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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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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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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Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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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 don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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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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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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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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We are made in the image of God we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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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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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self
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We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.
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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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