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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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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Paul Young
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Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
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But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.
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I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
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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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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
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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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Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?' Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.
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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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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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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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Jesus picked up the conversation. As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.
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Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.
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...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
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I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.
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Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience it is all about relationships of love and respect.
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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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True love never forces.
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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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