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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.

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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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
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
We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
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Garden Heart Broken Live Sadness Talk
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
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
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
She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.
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Astonishment Creation God Touch Woman Work
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
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Carry Life Man People Wound Yourself
Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.
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Beginning Care Heart Love Selfish
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Alive Desire Faith Hope
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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Anand Thakur
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
If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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Awakening Fierce Growth Purpose Quality Warrior
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other–moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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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
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
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
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Ahead Anticipate Better Heart Journey
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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Abandonment Act Admire God Worship
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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Anand Thakur
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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

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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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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