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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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I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
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Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.
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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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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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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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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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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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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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You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.
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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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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
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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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If anything matters, then everything matters.
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
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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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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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