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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.
-John Eldredge
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For After Years Of Living In A

John Eldredge
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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