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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.

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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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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
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I'm an accidental writer.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.
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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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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .
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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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Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
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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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I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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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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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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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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Lies are a little fortress inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
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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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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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So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?
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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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