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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.

John Eldredge

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
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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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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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
For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion, and a man no longer believes he is a man.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Clear Eyes Heart See
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
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
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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Accomplishment End Heart Live Performance
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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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Brilliant Disguise Encounter Man Yourself
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Knowledge True

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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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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