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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

William P. Young

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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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Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.
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Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
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Love always leaves a significant mark.
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Lies are a little fortress inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
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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 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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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.
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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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If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
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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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It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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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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I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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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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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
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This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.
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You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.
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