Status Updates From Boundaries in Dating

""Once I had made a mistake, I thought that I had already blown it."

"That's [not]the way that God looks at our failures. He does not look at us like a piece of porcelain that, once broken, is always broken. He looks at us all as broken people whom he makes new again. With his forgiveness, you can start all over and be as clean as when you began."

"It is difficult to keep someone out of your heart who has invaded your body."

"If you love me, you won't make demands that I do not feel comfortable with."

Love waits and respects, but lust must have what it wants now.

"If someone does not have self-control and delay of gratification in pleasure, can they delay the gratification of getting his or her own way in conflict?"

"If someone cannot delay gratification and control himself or herself in this area, what makes you think that they can delay their own gratification in other areas of sacrifice for you?"

In relationships, you get what you tolerate.

"Blame is one of the gravest problems we face, spiritually and emotionally. It keeps us more concerned about being 'good' than about being honest."

"God faces the reality of who a person is, forgives that person, and then works with the reality of who he or she is. He does not demand perfection when that is clearly not reality. "