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The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.

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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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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 remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
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It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.
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You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.
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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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Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
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And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.
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Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
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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 grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.
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