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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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Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
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I am especially fond of you.
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Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.
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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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And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.
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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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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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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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I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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There is only one race ... and it is human!
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly... And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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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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Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
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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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He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.
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