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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 have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.
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I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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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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mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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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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Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?
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Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
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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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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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Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
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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 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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Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
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Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
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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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