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Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.
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Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
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I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.
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It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
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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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This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.
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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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I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.
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God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.
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The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.
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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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I'm an accidental writer.
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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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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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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
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