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Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

John Eldredge

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
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Choice Fight Man Warrior
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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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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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
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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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
My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.
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God Heart Himself
They ignore what is deep and true to a man’s heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.
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The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.
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Dangerous Death Earth Live Man
Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.
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Ahead Anticipate Better Heart Journey
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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Call Desire Heart Man 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
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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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
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
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Fall In Love God Important Person
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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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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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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Hesitant Man Myself Need Warrior Woman
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Clear Eyes Heart See
The real you is on the side of God against the false self.
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Fake God Reality Yourself
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
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Live Man Passion People Rescue Risk Slave Stop

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