To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
HENRY CLOUDIf 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.
More Henry Cloud Quotes
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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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There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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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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Christianity is not about morality. It’s about reality.
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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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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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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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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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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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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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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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People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari – like they’re trying to land the trophy.
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The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
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We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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