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True love never forces.

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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Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.
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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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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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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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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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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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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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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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Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.
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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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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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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 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
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Lies are a little fortress inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
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The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
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I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.
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Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.
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You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.
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