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
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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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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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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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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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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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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Story is the language of the heart.
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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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