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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

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 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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I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it it's my joy to cure it.
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You need boundaries... Even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river.
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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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Does that mean, asked Mack, that all roads will lead to you? Not at all, smiled Jesus...Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.
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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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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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Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy
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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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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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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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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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Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
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If anything matters, then everything matters.
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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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My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
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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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