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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

John Eldredge

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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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Adventure Fake Life Rescue Truth
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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Audience Crowd Himself Person Play Remark Strike True
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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Astonishment Creation God Touch Woman Work
The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Fake God Reality Yourself
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
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
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
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.
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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’.
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Bad Heart Known Man Remain Yourself
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
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Abandonment Act Admire God Worship
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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Anand Thakur
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Anand Thakur
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Anand Thakur
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Alive Desire Faith Hope

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

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