Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of 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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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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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