Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
HENRY CLOUDMarriage 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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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that’s present.
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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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Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other’s space and are champions of each other’s causes.
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Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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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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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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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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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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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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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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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 mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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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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The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
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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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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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Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
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Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as “Taking,” you are not getting it.
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Dating is primarily a numbers game. People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That’s just the way it is.
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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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Christianity is not about morality. It’s about reality.
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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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