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To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

Henry Cloud

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.
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Date People Place Practice
To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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Destroy Greatness Performance Relationship Return
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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Face Freedom Lose Order Right
You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
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Anand Thakur
Things don’t change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.
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Change Decision Marriage Responsibility
Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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Anand Thakur
A leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
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Built Disagree Freedom Intimacy True
Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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Existence Freedom Love Operation Responsibility
We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we’re going to need the next day.
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Better Creation Day Feeling Need
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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Live Ourselves Pretend Sadness Sin
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
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Active Culture Group Immunity Infection System
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
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Anand Thakur
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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Anand Thakur

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

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