True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
HENRY CLOUDEverything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something’s time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
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To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
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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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We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.
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We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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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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Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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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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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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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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Being right can never compete with doing well.
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There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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Dont use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and dont worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
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Diligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it.
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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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You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
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Encourage literally came from “in courage.” The courage is put “into” you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
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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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He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships.
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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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When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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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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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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Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something’s time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
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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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