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You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

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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There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.
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Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
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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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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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Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.
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Life takes a bit of time and a lot of 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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Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy
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Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.
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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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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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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
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Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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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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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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Love always leaves a significant mark.
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