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

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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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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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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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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 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.
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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari - like they're trying to land the trophy.
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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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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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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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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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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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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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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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Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
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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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The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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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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