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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
Disintegrated
Authority
Become
Character
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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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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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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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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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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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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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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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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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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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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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If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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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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You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
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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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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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