James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences."
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"Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences."
"للأفعال تبعات، وللأفعال الحمقاء غالبًا عواقب وخيمة."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is never too late to clean up your life."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Bundy was correct in saying that most serial murderers are addicted to hardcore pornography. FBI records validate that point. Not every person exposed to obscenity will become a killer, of course, but too many will!"
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!"
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"When you consider the many pressures that couples face today, only an iron-clad determination will hold them together for a lifetime. Those who go into marriage with a mushy commitment are likely to wobble and fall apart when the hard times come. And as we all know, hard times will come."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Highs must be followed by lows"
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"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
"Beautiful, enticing, forbidden fruit will be offered to you when your "hunger" is greatest. If you are foolish enough to reach for it, your fingers will sink into the rotten mush on the back side. That's the way sin operates in our lives. It promises everything. It delivers nothing but disgust and heartache."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"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
"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
"Whenever you begin to conclude, "I can't win," and "What's the use" you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"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
"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
"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
"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
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