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Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future QUOTES

1 " Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

2 " Indeed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculated that 65 million people in the United States now have a sexually transmitted virus, and they will suffer from it for the rest of their lives. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

3 " Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

4 " Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

5 " I don't want to die. I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has, and I think society deserves to be protected from me and from others like me. That's the irony. What I'm talking about is going beyond retribution because there is no way in the world that killing me is going to restore those beautiful children to their parents and correct and soothe the pain. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

6 " The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

7 " Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

8 " Remember that pornography is dangerous. It can warp the mind and destroy sexual intimacy in marriage. Stay away from it. A monster is crouched behind that door. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

9 " The family was God's idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

10 " Despite their depressing circumstances, the Hernandez family had a certain dignity and strength about them. They were Christians, and they taught their children that God loved them and had a plan for their lives. Their little boy, David, internalized that message of hope. He never thought of himself as a victim even though he had every reason to feel cheated. His family was at the bottom of the social ladder without even a house to live in, but his worth as an individual was rooted in his faith. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

11 " To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of doing something like that. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

12 " In fact, it has been said that when you have sex with someone, you are actually having sex with everyone who ever slept with that individual. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

13 " The relationship between a guy and a girl naturally becomes more intimate as they spend time together. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

14 " I read one study that indicated when a couple has been together for approximately three hundred hours, even most of those who are trying to be moral will do things they didn't intend originally. They may not even realize that is where the relationship is headed until it happens. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

15 " I'm delighted to tell you that Jesus Christ offers complete and total forgiveness to anyone who will repent and believe on His name. ...There are no sins that He cannot cleanse, and He's promised that they will be gone forever. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

16 " That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, maybe they'll find it someday. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

17 " Now I need to speak directly and with compassion to those who have already pushed open the door of premarital sex. The monster has been released. You've lost your virginity and may have been sexually active for years. Perhaps you've been carrying a load of guilt for doing what you knew was wrong. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

18 " What I am recommending to the unmarried person, therefore, comes straight out of the Word: Stay out of bed unless you there alone! I know that advice is difficult to put into practice today. But I didn't make the rules. I'm just passing them along. God's moral laws are not designed to oppress us or deprive us of pleasure. They are there to protect us from the devastation of sin, including disease, heartache, divorce, and spiritual death. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward is the Creator's own plan, and no one has devised a way to improve on it. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

19 " So enjoy the exhilaration when it comes. Take the ride to the heights when you get the opportunity. But don't get hooked on the thrill of the moment. Take charge of your emotions. And when it comes time to do the right thing, don't let your feelings lead you to compromise. That is the way to live a happier, more successful life and one that is more pleasing to God. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

20 " He concluded in the last scene that we are given two choices in life. We can allow ourselves to love and care for others, which makes us vulnerable to their sickness, death, or rejection. Or we can protect ourselves by refusing to love. Lewis decided that it is better to feel and to suffer than to go through life isolated, insulated, and lonely. "

― James C. Dobson , Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future