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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.

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'm an accidental writer.
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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 make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.
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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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mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.
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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
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Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience it is all about relationships of love and respect.
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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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