There 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.
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There 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 ELDREDGE
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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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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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
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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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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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