Maynard is right to criticize versions of "guard your heart" that shame women for having failed relationships or that promise a life without pain in dating. Proverbs 4:23 makes no such promise.

A “wrong heart” produces a “wrong life”, and we should always be on our guard against sin. Proverbs 5:21 (KJV) informs us that, “For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and ...

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it — Proverbs 4:23. “I never thought this would happen to me.” Those were the words of a close friend when he revealed to ...