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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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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Paul Young
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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.
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Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.
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I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.
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Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.
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those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
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...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
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Love is not the limitation love is the flying.
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I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.
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I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.
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It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.
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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
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