Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
JOHN ELDREDGE
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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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.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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