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Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience it is all about relationships of love and respect.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Young
William Paul Young
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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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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly... And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
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Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence
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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
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I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.
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You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
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Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
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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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Does that mean, asked Mack, that all roads will lead to you? Not at all, smiled Jesus...Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.
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Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
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I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.
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I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.
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It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
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