Story is the language of the heart.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

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

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

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

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

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

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

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

The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.

'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.

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

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.

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

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

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

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

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.

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.

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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