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In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.
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 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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Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.
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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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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly... And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
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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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Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
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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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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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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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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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It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
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Emotions are the colors of the soul.
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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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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Nothing in life is ritual.
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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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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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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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Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
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