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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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It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
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Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.
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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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Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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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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There is only one race ... and it is human!
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Lies are a little fortress inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
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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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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 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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So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?
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Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
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So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
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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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Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
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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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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
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