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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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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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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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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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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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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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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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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
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When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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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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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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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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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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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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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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