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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

John Eldredge

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.
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Face Human Material Nature Reality Spiritual War World
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Anand Thakur
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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Garden Heart Broken Live Sadness Talk
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Ahead Anticipate Better Heart Journey
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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Desire Life Live Whisper Worth
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Choice Fight Man Warrior
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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Adventure Carry Desire God Image Lying
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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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Bad Heart Known Man Remain Yourself
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.
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Hesitant Man Myself Need Warrior Woman
When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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Dangerous Hurt Live Vulnerable Woman
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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Dangerous Death Earth Live Man
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Clear Eyes Heart See
I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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Help Integrity Live Myself Theory Writing

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

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