Daniel E Blair

“Perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out as the LORD has spoken.” This “perhaps” is not the voice of doubt so much as the voice of experience and expectancy. As a soldier Caleb knows there’s no guarantee, but as a believer he also knows the God who holds his life in His hands. He’s seen it many times along his life’s path. Here Caleb rightly recognizes the freedom of his sovereign God. He also knows His promised presence with him even if he should face the shadow of death.”
― Jerry Boykin, The Warrior Soul: Five Powerful Principles to Make You a Stronger Man of God

“Men, let me plead with you: The greatest fight of your life is not lust. You may think it is, but it isn’t. The greatest fight of your life will be rejecting the passivity that has infected your heart since the fall. Your natural default, especially as it pertains to sacrificial leadership of your wife, will be to mutely witness.”
― Matt Chandler, The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption

“But there is a beauty even in loving without response because that kind of love is truly selfless. When we love with no expectation or promise of reciprocity, we know what it means to sacrifice and deny ourselves in ways we wouldn’t otherwise.”
― Matt Chandler, The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption

“Manhood feels like a mysterious destination. Like a remote ManCave with lots of bearded men, and smoke and fire and drum circles. The bearded men don’t talk a lot; they just grunt and eat red meat. Somehow, they have man-skills. They aren’t trying to prove anything. They’re just simply men-in-the-raw. Undomesticated and unfettered. Somehow they are the initiated. They drink deep from the draughts of manhood.”
― John Sowers, Heroic Path: In Search of the Masculine Heart