Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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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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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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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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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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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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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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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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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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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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.
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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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