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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.

John Eldredge

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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Audience Crowd Himself Person Play Remark Strike True
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

Anand Thakur
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Adventure Dangerous Man Soul Spirituality
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
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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Carry Contentment Ourselves
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
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
But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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Feeling Healing One Liner Wound
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Courage Greatness Reality Strength Woman
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
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
Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
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Care Heart Himself Protection Relationship Voice
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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Desire Life Live Whisper Worth
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
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Gospel Reading Sound Television Turn Watch

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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