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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.

John Eldredge

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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Desire Life Live Whisper Worth
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
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Anand Thakur
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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Dangerous Hurt Live Vulnerable Woman
The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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Dangerous Death Earth Live Man
A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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Goal Himself Life Man Mission Togetherness Woman
Story is the language of the heart.
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Heart Language One Liner Story
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Alive Desire Faith Hope
Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.
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Carry Contentment Ourselves
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
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Courage Greatness Reality Strength Woman
Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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Care Heart Himself Protection Relationship Voice
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Clear Eyes Heart See
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Choice Fight Man Warrior
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
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.
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Adventure Carry Desire God Image Lying

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