Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
JOHN ELDREDGESecurity is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
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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.
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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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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
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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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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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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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Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, “life to the limit.
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A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.
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You can’t fight a battle you don’t think exists.
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