But don’t throw hope away on things which have no reality behind them. That kind of hope makes the heart sick.

If you couple that with standing on God’s sound principles of growth, you have more reason to hope. Principles like honesty, kindness, firm boundaries, forgiveness, responsibility, faithfulness, and the like will protect you. They are time-tested and proven. God’s ways are like a lamp to our feet, and if you follow them, we believe the chances of

In relationships, you get what you tolerate.

In part it is because people who allow people to get away with things seem to attract the kind that would want to get away with less-than-considerate behavior. Another reason seems to be that whenever we do not have good limits with each other, there is a regression on the part of the person who is enabled to be less than mature.

God’s forgiveness is available to anyone, no matter what you have done. It will allow you to have a clean slate and start over with good sexual boundaries.

Where there is deception there is no relationship.

Take a strong stance of being more concerned about your own soul’s state than that of your date’s.

Aloneness is to be cured by relationships with God and other people.

don’t be someone you are not just to gain someone’s love. If you do, the person that your loved one is loving is not you. It is the role that you are playing and not your true self who is being loved.