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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.

John Eldredge

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Courage Greatness Reality Strength Woman
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 ELDREDGE

Carry Life Man People Wound Yourself
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Adventure Dangerous Man Soul Spirituality
Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Comparison Creation Glory God Pale
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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Hesitant Man Myself Need Warrior Woman
A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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Call Desire Heart Man Writing
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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God Heart Himself
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
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
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Choice Fight Man Warrior
We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Control Guard Invitation Ourselves Security
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
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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Battle Family Fight Home Life Man Transcendence

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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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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