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Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

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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Love always leaves a significant mark.
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It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
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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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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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When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.
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Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.
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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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You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.
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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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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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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
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He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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Jesus? he whispered as his voice choked I feel so lost A hand reached out and squeezed his, and didn't let go. I know Mack. But it's not true. I am with you and I'm not lost. I'm sorry it feels that way, but hear me clearly. You are not lost.
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Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.
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The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.
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Nothing in life is ritual.
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Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
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