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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

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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Anand Thakur
A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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Herself Man Offering Strength Woman
You 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.
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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
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
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
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Absence Dangerous Presence Security
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
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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Anand Thakur
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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Anand Thakur
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
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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
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
The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Fake God Reality Yourself
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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God Heart Himself

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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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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