The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
JOHN ELDREDGEGod 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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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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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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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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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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