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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.

John Eldredge

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
A man’s calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
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Call Desire Heart Man Writing
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
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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Knowledge True
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
Instead of asking, ‘What should a woman do – what is her role?’ it would be far more helpful to ask, ‘What is a woman—what is her design?’ and, ‘Why did God place Woman in our midst?
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Design God Help Ourselves Place Woman
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
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Alive Desire Faith Hope
If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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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
But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Feeling Healing One Liner Wound
I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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Help Integrity Live Myself Theory Writing
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

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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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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