Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
JOHN ELDREDGEFalling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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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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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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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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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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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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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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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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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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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?
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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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