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Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

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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You are free to love without an agenda
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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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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
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It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.
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Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.
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Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
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This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.
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I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive
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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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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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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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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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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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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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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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And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.
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I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
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