If you're not ready to consider marriage or you're not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it's selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
If you're not ready to get married, don't grab at a relationship. Patiently wait for the right time to start one that can eventually lead to marriage. If you're ready for marriage and you're in a relationship, don't let impatience… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says,… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“I especially loved the Old Testament. Even as a kid I had a sense of it being slightly illicit. As though someone had slipped… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life's situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“The face that Moses had begged to see—was forbidden to see—was slapped bloody (Exodus 33:19–20). The thorns that God had sent to curse the… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires and do… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
