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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.

John Eldredge

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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

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
They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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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.
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Battle Family Fight Home Life Man Transcendence
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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God Heart Himself
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
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 true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Knowledge True
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
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
JOHN ELDREDGE

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
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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Carry Life Man People Wound Yourself
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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
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
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Choice Fight Man Warrior

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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