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My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

John Eldredge

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
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Control Guard Invitation Ourselves Security
Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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Anand Thakur
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Ahead Anticipate Better Heart Journey
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
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
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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Anand Thakur
Story is the language of the heart.
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Heart Language One Liner Story
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
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
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Gospel Reading Sound Television Turn Watch
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
The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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Dangerous Death Earth Live Man
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
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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Anand Thakur
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

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