“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.”

There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.

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.

All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

We had no other option – there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country.

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.