John Eldredge - Wild at Heart (2001)

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When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.

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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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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.

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

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

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Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.

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

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If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

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

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Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where blood is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something — and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

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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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Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.

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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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