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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
Author
Psychotherapist
Writer
LA
California
Fighting
Every
Men
Warrior
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Fight
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We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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The real you is on the side of God against the false self
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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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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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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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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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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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How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)
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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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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 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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A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
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Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
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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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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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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness it's how we begin to love.
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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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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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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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