John Eldredge - Heart Quotes

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

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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

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We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.

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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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To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.

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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him...

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We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

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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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Of course, none of this can happen for us until we give our lives back to God. We cannot know the joy or the life or the freedom of heart I've described until we surrender our lives to Jesus and surrender them totally... We turn, and give ourselves body, soul, and spirit back to God, asking him to cleanse our hearts and make them new. And he does. He gives us a new heart. And he comes to dwell there, in our hearts.

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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

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There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey... something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.

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The heart is God's most magnificent creation, and the prize over which he fights the kingdom of darkness.
Now consider this - marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

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They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.

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We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

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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 culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.

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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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