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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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I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
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Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
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Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to...' To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But as long as you think you do, you will surely get ticked off when someone cuts you off, even if it is God.
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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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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When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.
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Jesus picked up the conversation. As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.
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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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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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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
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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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It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
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mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.
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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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Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
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Love is not the limitation love is the flying.
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