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.
JOHN ELDREDGE
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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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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.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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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.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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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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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