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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Living
Sometimes
Dating
Breaking
Boundaries
Certainly
Dying
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Values

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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves a 'wake' behind in these two areas, task and relationship: what did he accomplish and how did he deal with people?
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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
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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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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
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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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Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other's space and are champions of each other's causes.
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If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
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The business of church is ultimately people. You're trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.
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If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.
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Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
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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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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.
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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
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