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The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
William P. Young
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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Paul Young
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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
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Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
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I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.
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I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
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I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
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Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
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I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.
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In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.
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There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.
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