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If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

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Joshua Harris
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: December 30
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Dayton
Ohio
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I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm saying let's wait until we can be purposeful, so there's a reason behind our relationship, and we're not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time.
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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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Sex is not the problem [Lust is]
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But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.
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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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Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience
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Terms don't define our lives our lives define our terms.
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The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.
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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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Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.
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The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.
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True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
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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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A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.
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When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.
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When you dress and behave in a way that is designed primarily to arouse sexual desire in men, you are committing pornography with your life.
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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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Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.
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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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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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