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

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
Author
Psychotherapist
Writer
LA
California
Counts
Really
Men

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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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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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To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.
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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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The real you is on the side of God against the false self
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Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
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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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It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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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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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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Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.
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Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness it's how we begin to love.
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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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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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But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
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