Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
HENRY CLOUDSpouses in healthy relationships cherish each other’s space and are champions of each other’s causes.
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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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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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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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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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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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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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We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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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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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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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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Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
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Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.
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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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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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