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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.

John Eldredge

Story is the language of the heart.
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Heart Language One Liner Story
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
But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Feeling Healing One Liner Wound
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
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
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 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
If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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Anand Thakur
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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Battle Family Fight Home Life Man Transcendence
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
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
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
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.
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Anand Thakur

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