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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

John Eldredge

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
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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Live Marriage Understand War World Yourself
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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Awakening Fierce Growth Purpose Quality Warrior
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Anand Thakur
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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Anand Thakur
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
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Courage Greatness Reality Strength Woman
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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Brilliant Disguise Encounter Man Yourself
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
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
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
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Herself Man Offering Strength Woman
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Abandonment Act Admire God Worship
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
So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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Bad Heart Known Man Remain Yourself

Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

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