A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
JOHN ELDREDGE
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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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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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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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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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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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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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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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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We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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