Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
JOHN ELDREDGE
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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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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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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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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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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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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 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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