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We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
Author
Psychotherapist
Writer
LA
California
Thinking
Find
Hearts
Come
Role
Play
Roles
Great
Alive
Heart
Beauty
Unveil
Every
Woman
Longs
Things
Makes
Irreplaceable
Think
Three
Adventure

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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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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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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father.
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A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self
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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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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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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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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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He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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Faith looks back and draws courage hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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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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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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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness it's how we begin to love.
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