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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Soft
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Issues
Persons
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When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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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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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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Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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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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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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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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If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.
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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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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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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!
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Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
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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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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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Encourage literally came from in courage. The courage is put into you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
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The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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