Henry Cloud

Time goes by. What we do in that time remains. The day’s gone, its fruit stays. Use the time well. Love someone, do something that matters.

Henry Cloud

To be purposeful people who can get things done, we need to be able to organize our desires, goals, time, and efforts. This is an important aspect of functioning.

Henry Cloud

To best deal with unsafe people, we first need to understand what causes us to be unsafe. For the problem is not just outside us; it is inside every one of us.

Henry Cloud

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

Henry Cloud

Trying to get through life on your own limited strength, knowledge, and resources leads to futility and a loss of hope. But in God’s economy, getting to the end of yourself is the beginning of hope.

Henry Cloud

Ultimately, no person, or no circumstance has control of you – that control belongs to you and you only. So grasp God’s hand and return to the freedom that he died to give you.

Henry Cloud

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

Henry Cloud

We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.

Henry Cloud

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.

Henry Cloud

We were created for intimacy, to connect with someone with heart, soul, and mind. Intimacy occurs when we are open, vulnerable, and honest, for these qualities help us to be close to each other.

Henry Cloud