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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.

John Eldredge

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
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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Anand Thakur
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
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Adventure Dangerous Man Soul Spirituality
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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Goal Himself Life Man Mission Togetherness Woman
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Anand Thakur
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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Care Heart Himself Protection Relationship Voice
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Clear Eyes Heart See
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Ahead Anticipate Better Heart Journey
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.
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Anand Thakur
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
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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Call Desire Heart Man Writing
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
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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Battle Family Fight Home Life Man Transcendence
Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
JOHN ELDREDGE

Design God Help Ourselves Place Woman

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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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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