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.
HENRY CLOUDThe amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that’s present.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
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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 amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that’s present.
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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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When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.
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There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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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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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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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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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
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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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I’m not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.
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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.
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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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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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The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.
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Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
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In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school.
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Whatever’s happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don’t treat it like it’s the whole story. Keep writing the story.
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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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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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