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Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age QUOTES

Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age QUOTES

1 " Finding someone is easy, but finding the RIGHT someone the RIGHT way is not.

What we are looking for is character and chemistry

That is vision we are aiming for in a marriage : a couple hand in hand, pursuing God together - same direction, same pace, good chemistry.

Dating is the modern process of evaluation we use to find that person to marry "

― , Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

2 " We have to be connected to a source of life if we are going to be a source of life. "

― , Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

3 " You want someone with character—not perfect, but perfectable, because he or she is submitted to the Lord and longs to do his will. "

― , Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

4 " When someone says to me, "I have been talking with this girl for a while. We're trying to figure out when to make it official, like, Facebook official. What's your advice?" I always ask in response, "Are you, as an individual, in an emotional, spiritual, and financial situation where you feel you could reasonable get married in the next six months?" Normally the guy answers, "No." I respond, "Then you do not need to be in a rush to try to lay some claim on this girl. You do not need to expedite attempting to name your relationship. Because what you are trying to do is get the security and comfort of locking her down, saying to the world, 'She is MY girlfriend.' But what does that mean? It means other guys can't have her. It means you have laid a certain claim on her. But under God, you have no rights over her! She can do whatever she wants! "

― , Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

5 " The married man has clear biblical texts concerning physicality. . .The brother and sister in Christ have clear commands as well. . . What about the boyfriend and girlfriend? There are no verses for that category because God does not acknowledge that as a category. So if you are dating, your operative verses are 1 Timothy 5. Then the question becomes, "How far is too far with your mom? Where is the line with your sister? "

― , Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

6 " Freedom is not the absence of boundaries, it is the ability to fulfill created intent. "

― , Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age

7 " That is the vision we are aiming for in marriage: a couple hand in hand, pursuing God together—same direction, same pace, good chemistry. This is what marriage is meant to be. Dating is the modern process of evaluation we use to find that person to marry. "

― , Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age