John Eldredge Men Quotations

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

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

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

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

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

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

Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

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.

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.

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

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.