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Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

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Joshua Harris
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: December 30
Author
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Dayton
Ohio
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Romance
Patience
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Wisdom

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If you're not ready to get married, don't grab at a relationship. Patiently wait for the right time to start one that can eventually lead to marriage. If you're ready for marriage and you're in a relationship, don't let impatience cause you to rush. Take your time. Enjoy where God has the two of you right now.
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I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful. - from Dug Down Deep
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I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.
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Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.
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When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.
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Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.
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True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.
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The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.
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When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.
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God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.
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If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.
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We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.
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I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.
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We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
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Terms don't define our lives our lives define our terms.
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Many couples have made commitments to sexual purity, but instead of adopting a lifestyle that supports this commitment, they continue relationships that encourage physical expression and place themselves in dangerous settings. The path you take with your feet should never contradict the conviction of your heart.
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You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.
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Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.
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A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.
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What we say we believe makes very little difference until we act on our belief
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