Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
HENRY CLOUDLeave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.
More Henry Cloud Quotes
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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
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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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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.
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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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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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To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.
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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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There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.
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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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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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A person who hasn’t grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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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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Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
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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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You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
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Because dating is a human exercise, it can be a tightrope fraught with danger. You will be dating imperfect people, and some of them are more imperfect than others. In addition, you are not perfect either, so that complicates the picture.
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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 fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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