I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm saying let's wait until we can be purposeful, so there's a reason behind our relationship, and we're not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires and do what's in his or her best interest. To care for him or her even when there's nothing in it for us. To want that person's purity and holiness because it pleases God and protects him or her.

A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.