Killing Lions Quotes

“It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“You’re going to be okay. You’re going to find your way. You are not alone.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“Don’t picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“We reframe everything by one simple choice: I am accepting God’s invitation to become a man. From there we interpret jobs, money, relationships, flat tires, bad dates, even our play time as the context in which the boy is becoming a man. We take an active role, asking our Father to speak to us, speak to our identity, to validate us. We step into our fears and accept “hardship as discipline”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“Sartre felt that Hell is other people, but precisely the opposite is true. Hell is being left alone forever with no other reality than your own consciousness of yourself. It is being locked in a casket of your own internal chaos with no hope of a window, or door leading in light from outside to give you a moment's respite from yourself. Hell is the refusal of the gift of the other.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“Every man is part boy and part man. God requires the man to step up and play the man; but to the boy he offers comfort and healing. Be kind to the boy inside. It is the man God is calling to face down the next lion, but the boy he treats with genuine kindness. Do the same—be kind to yourself, your fears, your feelings of inadequacy. Don’t despise the fact that places in you still feel young; shame never heals, never encourages, never makes whole. Give grace to those places that feel six or ten or even thirteen.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man who can be entrusted with those dreams;”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”8”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”2”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“A man whose identity flows out of deep validation doesn’t wilt under criticism. He enjoys applause when it comes but frankly isn’t desperate for it. He can walk away from work at five o’clock; he doesn’t measure his success by how much money he makes. We grow into this man, to be sure; I’m not setting a new standard of perfection. But what I am describing”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“You were born into a savage war.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“And so the great battle begins in earnest: the battle for your heart, the battle to find a life worth living, the battle not to lose heart as you find a life worth living.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“History is riddled with blood and sin.”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

“What man is a man who does not make the world better?”
― John Eldredge, Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face