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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.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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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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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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It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
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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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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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Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
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Emotions are the colors of the soul.
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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.
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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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Does that mean, asked Mack, that all roads will lead to you? Not at all, smiled Jesus...Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.
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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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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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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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This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.
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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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Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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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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