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The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

'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.

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

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.

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.

For the most part, boys are very physical. It's not enough for them to be told they have what it takes and they have greatness. They have to discover for themselves. We learn by doing. The doing has to be somewhat physical.

You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

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.

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

We're told that you can have a relationship with Jesus, but most Christians don't experience Jesus personally like that. They just don't. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him. We don't experience Him and His personality like we do the people we love the most in our lives.

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.