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Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future by James C. Dobson
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“Ask yourself what you will care about when everything is on the line.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to “discover.” You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“There is no record in Scripture that an angel visited John’s cell to explain the meaning of his persecution. This great, godly man who was the designated forerunner to Jesus went through the same confusing experiences as we. It is comforting to know that John responded in a very human way. He sent a secret message to Jesus from his prison cell, asking “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Matthew 11:3). Have you ever felt like asking that question?”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“One of the most breathtaking concepts in all of Scripture is the revelation that God knows each of us personally and that we are in His mind both day and night. There is simply no way to comprehend the full implications of His love by the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is all-powerful and all-knowing, majestic and holy, from everlasting to everlasting. Why would He care about us—about our needs, our welfare, our fears? We have been discussing situations in which God doesn’t make sense. His concern for us mere mortals is the most inexplicable of all.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Whether right or wrong, it is my belief that Christian colleges place their emphasis not on that which divides us, but on the substance that binds us together. That commonality is the gospel of Jesus Christ. He commanded us to love one another—to set aside our differences and to care for “the least of these” among us. It is our unity, not our diversity, that deserves our allegiance.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand.” That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetuating our faith through your generation and beyond.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Let me leave you with this thought, written by my father before he died. If you incorporate it into your system of values, it will serve as a worthy guide to the management of your sexual energy: Strong desire is like a river. As long as it flows within the banks of God’s will—be the current strong or weak—all is well. But when it overruns those boundaries and seeks its own channels, then disaster lurks in the rampage below.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Thus, we knew at the onset of the sexual revolution back in 1968 that this day of disease and promiscuity would come. It is here, and what we do with our situation will determine how much we and our children will suffer in the future. God created the moral basis for the universe before He made the heavens and the earth. His concept of right and wrong was not an afterthought that came along with the Ten Commandments. No, it was an expression of God’s divine nature and was in force before “the beginning.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Highs must be followed by lows.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“22. Faith in God is like believing a man can walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope while pushing a wheelbarrow. Trust in God is like getting in the wheelbarrow! To believe God can do something miraculous is one thing; to risk His willingness to do it in your life is another.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“15. “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1Timothy 6:10, KJV). That’s why Jesus issues more warnings about materialism and wealth than any other sin. Obviously, it takes a steady hand to hold a full cup.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“14. God created two sexes, male and female. They are equal in worth, although each is unique and different. It is not only impossible to blend maleness and femaleness into a single sex (unisex), it is dangerous to even attempt it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“2. Christian education places its emphasis on “unity” in relationships between people.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“That’s why we must continue to support godly men and women who have dedicated their lives to Christian principles and to continuing those ideas in our offspring. Professors’ worldviews influence whatever they teach, from humanities to basic sciences, and what they think about God cannot be hidden from their students.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Seventy-five percent of students visiting the Cowell Health Center at Stanford University describe themselves as “sexually active.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no difficulty in expelling a student who utters an unwelcome opinion about the immorality of homosexuality.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“The dominant philosophy in today’s public university is called relativism, which categorically denies the existence of truth or moral absolutes. Those who are foolish enough to believe in such archaic notions as biblical authority or the claims of Christ are to be pitied—or bullied.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible in an atmosphere of hostility.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“I feel strongly that Christians have a scriptural mandate to love and care for all the people of the world. Even those who are living in immoral circumstances are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect. There is no place for hatred, hurtful jokes, or other forms of rejecting towards those who are gay.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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“We have to begin giving them the whole truth about premarital sex and the difficulties it can cause.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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