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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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Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?' Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.
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I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.
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I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.
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Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
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I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it it's my joy to cure it.
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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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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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Love is not the limitation love is the flying.
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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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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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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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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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God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.
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Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
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It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.
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