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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

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 really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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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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mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.
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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence
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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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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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I'm an accidental writer.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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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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If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
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Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .
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When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.
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Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.
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Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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