Henry Cloud Quotes

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• True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
• Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
• It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation.…
• To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
• A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
• 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…
• 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,…
• Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth,…
• Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break…
• Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
• Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
• 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…
• 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.
• You aren't alive if you aren't in need.
• 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…
• There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be…
• Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
• 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…
• When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger…
• 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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