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I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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Novelist
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William Young
William Paul Young
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Believe
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Forgiveness
Affection
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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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The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
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If you and I are friends, there is an expectancy that exists within our relationship. When we see each other or are apart, there is an expectancy of being together, of laughing and talking. The expectancy has no concrete definition it is alive and dynamic and everything that emerges from our being together is a unique gift shared by no one else.
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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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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This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.
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I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.
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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.
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There is only one race ... and it is human!
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Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
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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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Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.
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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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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
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