John Eldredge
You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.Collection: Fighting
Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.Collection: Heart
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.Collection: Jesus
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.Collection: Heart
A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.Collection: Men
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.Collection: Men
Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to be a disciple. After all -- aren't we 'followers of Christ'? Then by all means, let's actually follow him. Not ideas about him. Not just his principles. Him.Collection: Mean
Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: Country
The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Adventure
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.Collection: Believe
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.Collection: Destiny
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.Collection: Heart
Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.Collection: Adventure
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Mother
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.Collection: Men
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.Collection: Life
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.Collection: Jesus
We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.Collection: Our World
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Heart
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.Collection: Broken
Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.Collection: Couple
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'.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Heart
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)Collection: Motherhood
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.Collection: Jesus
A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.Collection: Suicide
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Lying
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.Collection: Adventure
There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Heart
I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.Collection: Nice
If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.Collection: Growing Up
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.Collection: Christian
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.Collection: Fighting
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its GodCollection: Heart
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.Collection: Heart
You probably can't imagine there being a glory in your life, let alone one that the Enemy fears. But remember - things are not what they seem. We are not what we seem. You probably believed that your heart was bad too. I pray that fog of poison gas from the pit of hell is fading away in the wind of God's truth. And there is more. Not only does Christ say to you that your heart is good, he invites you now out of the shadows to unveil your glory. You have a role you never dreamed of having.Collection: Heart
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.Collection: War
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.Collection: Heart
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.Collection: Finishing
Story is the language of the heart.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Father