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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.

John Eldredge

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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Bad Heart Known Man Remain Yourself
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
In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.
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Accomplishment End Heart Live Performance
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
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
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Story is the language of the heart.
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Heart Language One Liner Story
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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Brilliant Disguise Encounter Man Yourself

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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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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