“Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.”

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

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.

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam’s ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

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.

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.

You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.

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.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

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.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

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.

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.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

It’s one thing to break stuff and damage people’s possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that’s dangerous comedy.

I think it’s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it’s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.