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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

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Battle Family Fight Home Life Man Transcendence
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
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Astonishment Creation God Touch Woman Work
I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Help Integrity Live Myself Theory Writing
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Live Marriage Understand War World Yourself
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Live Man Passion People Rescue Risk Slave Stop
There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Hesitant Man Myself Need Warrior Woman
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Clear Eyes Heart See
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Alive Desire Faith Hope
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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’.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Bad Heart Known Man Remain Yourself
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Carry Contentment Ourselves

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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