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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Authority
Become
Character
Better
Way
Disintegrated

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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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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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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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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
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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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Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other's space and are champions of each other's causes.
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A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.
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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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A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the who you are as much as the what of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
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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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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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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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