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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.

John Eldredge

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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.
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Help Integrity Live Myself Theory Writing
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
A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Call Desire Heart Man Writing
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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
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
There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Face Human Material Nature Reality Spiritual War World
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
A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Goal Himself Life Man Mission Togetherness Woman
We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Garden Heart Broken Live Sadness Talk
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Abandonment Act Admire God Worship
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Herself Man Offering Strength Woman
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Care Heart Himself Protection Relationship Voice
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Accomplishment End Heart Live Performance

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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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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