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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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Joshua Harris
#Struggle
#Humans
#Human Relationships
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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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Joshua Harris
#True Love
#Kissing
#Love Is
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Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don’t have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.
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Joshua Harris
#Fall
#Eye
#Helping Others
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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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Joshua Harris
#Goodbye
#Girlfriend
#Kissing
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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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Joshua Harris
#Mean
#Remember
#Should
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If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.
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Joshua Harris
#Thinking
#Reality
#Two
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The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.†God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.
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Joshua Harris
#Christian
#Passion
#Men
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Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us.
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Joshua Harris
#Christian
#Opportunity
#Persons
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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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Joshua Harris
#Heart
#Opportunity
#Determined
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The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.
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Joshua Harris
#Commitment
#Godly
#Joy
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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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Joshua Harris
#People
#Ears
#Mouths
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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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Joshua Harris
#Boyfriend
#Heart
#Men
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Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
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Joshua Harris
#Term
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The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.
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Joshua Harris
#Right 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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Joshua Harris
#Relationship
#Commitment
#Responsibility
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Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness.
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Joshua Harris
#Mean
#Greatness
#Way
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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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Joshua Harris
#Missing
#Waiting
#Tomorrow
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The common error today is to bring God so close that we strip Him of His "godness." We think we have him figured out. So God becomes our pal, our buddy, our Divine Butler." from "Dug Down Deep
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Joshua Harris
#Thinking
#Errors
#Pals
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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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Joshua Harris
#Meaningful
#Thinking
#Different
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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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Joshua Harris
#Practice
#Want
#Path
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During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
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Joshua Harris
#Guarding
#Purity
#Intimacy
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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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Joshua Harris
#Beautiful
#Godly
#Men
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I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.
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Joshua Harris
#Light
#Darkness
#Curse
