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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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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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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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If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
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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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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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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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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
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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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Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
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He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships
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Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.
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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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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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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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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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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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