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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

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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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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Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.
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So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
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Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
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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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True love never forces.
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You need boundaries... Even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river.
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Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.
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There is only one race ... and it is human!
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Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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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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Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
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This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.
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If anything matters, then everything matters.
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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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I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.
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Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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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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