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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

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
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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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Herself Man Offering Strength Woman
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
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
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
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
Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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Anand Thakur
The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Dangerous Death Earth Live Man
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

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Adventure Carry Desire God Image Lying
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 don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Clear Eyes Heart See
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Ahead Anticipate Better Heart Journey
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
JOHN ELDREDGE

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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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