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The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

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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If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
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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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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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Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.
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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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If anything matters, then everything matters.
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...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
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Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
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I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it it's my joy to cure it.
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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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The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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Emotions are the colors of the soul.
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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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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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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Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.
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And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.
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