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mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

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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Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.
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The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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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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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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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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The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
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You are free to love without an agenda
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If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
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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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I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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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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those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
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The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.
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Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
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And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.
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