Henry Cloud

The relationship hurt my pride and my sense of trust. But even more, I began doubting myself.

we choose people based on outward appearance, and then experience the inside of them.

This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.

Satan tempts with instant intimacy through sexual passion, but God offers the faithful building of a loving relationship.

When we understand that the foundation of existence lies in relationship, for it is the way God exists, it begins to make sense why love is the highest ethic. The law is a structure, or a blueprint, for loving. The law is the way that love is to be lived out.

Relationship, or bonding, then, is at the foundation of God’s nature.

To grow, it must have sunlight, water, and nutrients,

When one person is in control of another, love cannot grow deeply and fully, as there is no freedom.

We allow ourselves to get pushed beyond certain limits and then become resentful or

“It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1

Before I married Tom, I was so caught up in my own insecurities and fears to really even know who I was.