Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Anand Thakur
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
JOHN ELDREDGEIf 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEBut a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
JOHN ELDREDGEWhen 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.
JOHN ELDREDGESo 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’.
JOHN ELDREDGEYou can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
JOHN ELDREDGEChristianity 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!
JOHN ELDREDGEThere is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
JOHN ELDREDGEHenri 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 ELDREDGEThe real you is on the side of God against the false self.
JOHN ELDREDGEA wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
JOHN ELDREDGEThe 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 ELDREDGEYou 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEEternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
JOHN ELDREDGEFor 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.
JOHN ELDREDGEShe 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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