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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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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Young
William Paul Young
Prepare
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes 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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I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
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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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Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .
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Nothing in life is ritual.
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Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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Lies are a little fortress inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
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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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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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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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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 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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Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.
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This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.
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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
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