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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

John Eldredge

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Anand Thakur
Story is the language of the heart.
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Heart Language One Liner Story
I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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Hesitant Man Myself Need Warrior Woman
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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God Heart Himself
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
Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Beginning Care Heart Love Selfish
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Astonishment Creation God Touch Woman Work
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
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Knowledge True
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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Live Man Passion People Rescue Risk Slave Stop
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
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Absence Dangerous Presence Security
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
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Anand Thakur
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Abandonment Act Admire God Worship
Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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Garden Heart Broken Live Sadness Talk
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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Awakening Fierce Growth Purpose Quality Warrior
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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We think you’ll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That’s what makes a woman come alive.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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
You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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Anand Thakur

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

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