Healing the Masculine Soul Quotes

“To God, I say, “Forgive me. I’m too comfortable, too lazy. I worry about trifles, and I take so much for granted. Save me, Lord, from the presumption that I’ve earned what I have by my own efforts, alone, that I’m ‘my own man.’ Help me, Lord, to be faithful to the sacrifices of the men who came before me, on whose shoulders I stand today—and out of that, to be faithful to Your sacrifice for me in Jesus.” To myself, I say, “Remember and never forget where you come from.”And I read again and again that commandment to my forebears in faith:”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“A man becomes spiritually mature when he is more afraid that the truth will not be told than that it will be told.”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“Engaging an angry woman can be like boxing with someone with long arms. If you “stay outside,” trying to calm her down and backing off or giving in, she’ll batter you. But if you’re willing to take a few blows, and move deliberately closer to her—pursuing her when she withdraws, insisting that you sit down and work it out, being willing to listen when she talks, and demonstrating yourself the respectful behavior you expect from her—both of you can win the match.”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“Can we Christians simply dare to tell men, “We are the body of Christ. If you want to know Jesus Christ, receive His power, be healed of your brokenness, and do His work in this world, join us”? Or are we afraid that the desire to know Jesus, be healed, and do His work is just not strong enough in men to warrant forming His church? Biblical faith understands that God “created the world” (Heb. 1:2 RSV) through Jesus. So the desire to know Jesus must exist in all of God’s creation—including men—no matter how deeply hidden.”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“the finest thing a father can do for his daughter is not to promise her protection forever, but to overcome his own ego and introduce her to the Father larger than himself.”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“Masculinity grows not out of conquering the woman, but only out of conquering the man—and not another man, as in war, but oneself.”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“Indeed, Jesus came to earth to battle for human souls. Sexual relationships, based on the profound spiritual dimension of sexuality itself, therefore become a primary context for that conflict. Contrary to the world’s view, however, the “battle of the sexes” is not between the man and the woman, one trying to dominate the other—but rather between God and the self-centered desires of the “flesh” in both man and woman. Victory in that battle was won by Jesus on the cross, when He yielded His body to the God who created it. The Good News in this for men and women is that those couples who have surrendered themselves to Jesus at the cross are freed from the urgent demands of their self-centered human nature to love like Jesus—for the other’s sake and not their own.”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“As long as we submit ourselves to Jesus, we have the power to love this boldly.”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“When Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to the believers as “the Helper,” the text uses the Greek word paraclete, which, as John Sandford has explained, is an ancient warrior’s term. Greek soldiers went to battle in pairs, so when the enemy attacked they could draw together back to back, covering each other’s blind side. Your battle partner was called your paraclete.6”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“May we men dare to rediscover the power God has given us to raise the sword of truth against the unbridled stallion within us. That is, may we submit our male sexuality to Jesus, who offers us the “yoke” (Matt. 11:29) needed to harness it for the good of ourselves and our nation— that we might then celebrate this biblical benediction: To him who is able to keep you from falling and to bring you faultless and joyful before his glorious presence—to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, from all ages past, and now, and forever and ever! Amen. (Jude 24)”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood

“turn to the Living God, so that we might turn to one another without fear and become the agents of love we were created to be.”
― Gordon Dalbey, Healing the Masculine Soul: God's Restoration of Men to Real Manhood