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It is true that you get what you tolerate.

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
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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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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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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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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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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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