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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness it's how we begin to love.
John Eldredge
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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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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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We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.
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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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