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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.

John Eldredge

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
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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God Heart Himself
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
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
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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Break Children Marriage Passion Pay
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
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Herself Man Offering Strength Woman
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
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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Anand Thakur
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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Call Desire Heart Man Writing
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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Finding Heart Himself Journey Man
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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.
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Live Man Passion People Rescue Risk Slave Stop
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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Battle Family Fight Home Life Man Transcendence
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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Hesitant Man Myself Need Warrior Woman

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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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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