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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

John Eldredge

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.
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Face Human Material Nature Reality Spiritual War World
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
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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Carry Contentment Ourselves
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.
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Anand Thakur
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Adventure Dangerous Man Soul Spirituality
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
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Adventure Carry Desire God Image Lying
The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Fake God Reality 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.
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Goal Himself Life Man Mission Togetherness Woman
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
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 point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Anand Thakur
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Absence Dangerous Presence Security
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
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
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
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Anand Thakur
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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Dangerous Hurt Live Vulnerable Woman

Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

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