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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

John Eldredge

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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Anand Thakur
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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Accomplishment End Heart Live Performance
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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Anand Thakur
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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Live Man Passion People Rescue Risk Slave Stop
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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Comparison Creation Glory God Pale
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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Anand Thakur
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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Character Kind Motive Theatre Try Understand
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
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Astonishment Creation God Touch Woman Work
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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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
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Choice Fight Man Warrior
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
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Anand Thakur

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

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