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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.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
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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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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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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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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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The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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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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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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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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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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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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We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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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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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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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
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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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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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