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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
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Vicksburg
Mississippi
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Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.
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Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
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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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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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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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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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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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Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.
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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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