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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
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
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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Anand Thakur
God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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Comparison Creation Glory God Pale
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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Adventure Carry Desire God Image Lying
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
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Live Marriage Understand War World Yourself
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
There is something about human nature that just doesn’t want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world – and that is a world at war.
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Face Human Material Nature Reality Spiritual War World
You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Anand Thakur
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Clear Eyes Heart See
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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Character Kind Motive Theatre Try Understand
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
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
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
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.
JOHN ELDREDGE

Help Integrity Live Myself Theory Writing

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