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Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul QUOTES

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

2 " You can't fight a battle you don't think exists. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

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

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

4 " The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

5 " In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none of us ever really believed the sorcerer was real. We thought we could have the maiden without a fight. Honestly, most of us guys thought our biggest battle was asking her out. And second, we have not understood the tower and its relationship to her wound; the damsel is in distress. If masculinity has come under assault, femininity has been brutalized. Eve is the crown of creation, remember? She embodies the exquisite beauty and the exotic mystery of God in a way that nothing else in all creation even comes close to. And so she is the special target of the Evil One; he turns his most vicious malice against her. If he can destroy her or keep her captive, he can ruin the story. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

6 " 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. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

7 " don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

8 " True strength does not come out of bravado. Until we are broken, our life will be self-centered, self-reliant; our strength will be our own. So long as you think you are really something in and of yourself, what will you need God for? I don’t trust a man who hasn’t suffered; I don’t let a man get close to me who hasn’t faced his wound. Think of the posers you know—are they the kind of man you would call at 2:00 A.M., when life is collapsing around you? Not me. I don’t want clichés; I want deep, soulful truth, and that only comes when a man has walked the road I’ve been talking about. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

9 " What if those deep desires in our hearts are telling us the truth, revealing to us the life we were meant to live?
God gave us eyes so that we might see; he gave us ears that we might hear; he gave us will that we might choose, and he gave us hearts that we might live.
The way we handle the heart is everything. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

10 " And after years of hearing the heart-cry of women, I am convinced beyond a doubt of this: God wants to be loved. He wants to be a priority to someone. How could we have missed this? From cover to cover, from beginning to end, the cry of God's heart is, "Why won't you choose Me?" It is amazing to me how humble, how vulnerable God is on this point. "You will . . . find me," says the Lord, "when you seek me with all your heart" (Jer. 29:13). In other words, "Look for me, pursue me -- I want you to pursue me." Amazing. As Tozer says, "God waits to be wanted. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

11 " 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. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

12 " The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

13 " 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. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

14 " Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

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

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

16 " The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he’s used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

17 " God’s relationship with us and with our world is just that: a relationship. As with every relationship, there’s a certain amount of unpredictability, and the ever-present likelihood that you’ll get hurt. The ultimate risk anyone ever takes is to love, for as C. S. Lewis says, “Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.” But God does give it, again and again and again, until he is literally bleeding from it all. God’s willingness to risk is just astounding—far beyond what any of us would do were we in his position. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

18 " 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 , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

19 " A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

20 " Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father. "

― John Eldredge , Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul