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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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE
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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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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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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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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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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.
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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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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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