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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.

John Eldredge

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
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
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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Anand Thakur
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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Adventure Carry Desire God Image Lying
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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Dangerous Hurt Live Vulnerable Woman
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
Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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Care Heart Himself Protection Relationship Voice
We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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Anand Thakur
Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Beginning Care Heart Love Selfish
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.
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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
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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Awakening Fierce Growth Purpose Quality Warrior
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
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Anand Thakur
We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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Garden Heart Broken Live Sadness Talk

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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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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