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“Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.”

Film Lying Literature Sports Consciousness Television Adventure Surface Heroic Yearning Examination Beneath The Surface Vicarious Popular Film

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.”

People Stories Jesus Journey Adventure Heroic Embodiment Epoch

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.”

Way Might Adventure Heroic Quests

Author:Alan Hirsch

“I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.”

World Heart Dream Adventure Heroic My Thoughts Lad Refreshments

Book:The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912

Source: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912

“I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.”

Ends Sometimes Character Dream Fiction Adventure The End Of The Day Heroic Our Dreams Revealing Fictional Character

Author:Alan Moore

“To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”

Men Adventure Mad Heroic Great Adventure

Author:Boris Pasternak

“Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.”

Men World Has Beens Common Liberty Taken Adventure Related Fancy Regions Heroic Exploits Common Man

Author:Daniel Boone

“The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.”

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Author:Charlotte Mason