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As I think about it now, I realize I looked pretty silly walking around with my bucket, but I probably look even sillier walking around with all my pride and selfishness and impatience. Even more so to the people who were closest to me—the
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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.”
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
“Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.”
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“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.”
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
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