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The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
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Many
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There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.
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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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Oftentimes, churches are started by an entrepreneurial church plant visionary whom everybody follows, but he's not following anybody. Even though he's accountable to a board, he's really not. Authority's a good thing, and if it's not forced upon you as a leader, then I suggest, strongly, that you go buy some.
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Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
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That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the who you are as much as the what of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
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If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
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You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we're going to need the next day.
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For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.
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A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
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Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.
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Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
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A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
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