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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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Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
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I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.
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Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.
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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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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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Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.
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Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.
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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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Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
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Love is much stronger than your fault could ever 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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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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If anything matters, then everything matters.
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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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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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If you and I are friends, there is an expectancy that exists within our relationship. When we see each other or are apart, there is an expectancy of being together, of laughing and talking. The expectancy has no concrete definition it is alive and dynamic and everything that emerges from our being together is a unique gift shared by no one else.
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Nothing in life is ritual.
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Love is not the limitation love is the flying.
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You are free to love without an agenda
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Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.
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