Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
John EldredgeThe story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
John EldredgeEvery boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father.
John Eldredge