You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That’s the fellowship that they want to be in. John Eldredge Read Quote
Most of us live in a fog. It’s like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can’t figure out the story. We don’t know what part we’re supposed to play or what the plot is. John Eldredge Read Quote
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit ‘the wild goose.’ And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him. John Eldredge Read Quote
Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men. John Eldredge Read Quote
The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David’s story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea. John Eldredge Read Quote
It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. John Eldredge Read Quote
Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, ‘My heart is deceitfully wicked.’ No, it’s not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart. John Eldredge Read Quote
Wild at Heart’ created a set of expectations maybe, partly, on my part, certainly on my publisher’s part, but also in the world out there, that my next books would be as remarkable. John Eldredge Read Quote
In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn’t marry and he couldn’t own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic. John Eldredge Read Quote
Where a man’s strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women – the way that he loves. John Eldredge Read Quote
