Top 51 William Paul Young Quotes
#1. Fairy tales and myths are born inside imagination's storehouse; just because something is considered to be 'a story' doesn't mean it isn't true.
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#3. Our deep longings remind us we have lost something vital and precious. Such yearnings are the stirring of hope. Of returning." "Returning where?" "To this garden.
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#5. So when you look at Jesus and it appears that he's flying he really is...flying. But what you are actually seeing is me my life in him. That's how he lives and acts as a true human how every human is designed to live-out of my life.
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#7. Am I going crazy? Am I supposed to believe that God is a big black woman with a questionable sense of humor?
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#8. Eve was absent because she would be formed inside Man, and Lilly was here to witness their birth.
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#10. This being requires no proof of love. They are bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, and for them my everlasting Love and affection will never be diminished. They cannot drift into unworthiness.
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#11. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly. But even then, you don't want to trust them more than me.
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#13. It's extremely hard to rescue someone unless he is willing to trust you.
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#14. Rumors of glory are often hidden inside what many consider myths and tales.
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#15. The friendship is real, not merely imagined. We're meant to experience this life, your life, together, in a dialogue, sharing the journey. You get to share in our wisdom and learn to love with our love,
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#20. Even should we find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. - Henry Van Dyke
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#21. Humans are so lost and damaged that to you it is almost incomprehensible that people could work or live together without someone being in charge.
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#24. As well-intentioned as it might be, you know that religious machinery can chew up people!
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#25. roads are rarely what they appear to be and are not predictable. Maybe safe is about the company you keep and not about the road you take?
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#28. every person is a story and therefore is a storyteller. Trouble is that many fear failure, so they never begin.
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#29. but how will I hear you?"
"You will learn to hear my thoughts in yours, MacKenzie," she reassured him.
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#31. the people who know me are the ones who are free to live and love without any agenda.
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#33. while some things may not be scientifically provable, they can still be true nonetheless.
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#36. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you. And the more you know another, the richer the colors of that relationship.
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#37. you will hear and see me in the Bible in fresh ways. Just don't look for rules and principles; look for relationship - a way of coming to be with us.
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#39. You must give up your right to decide what is good and evil on your own terms. That is a hard pill to swallow - choosing to live only in me. To do that, you must know me enough to trust me and learn to rest in my inherent goodness.
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#40. Humans have the tendency to restructure language according to their independence and need to perform.
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#41. I will use every choice you make for the ultimate good and the most loving outcome.
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#43. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors." "Actually, that's a relief. I couldn't bear to think
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#44. We are thankful for the gifts that surround us, and then we let them go, trusting that nothing will be lost, even if we lose it for a time.
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#45. And you're my mother? How can you be my mother? You're . . ." "Black?" She laughed so cleanly and joyfully that Lilly couldn't help but join her, though still completely perplexed. "Dear one, how beautiful is black, which includes and keeps all color?
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#49. You have the freedom to trust and the freedom to turn. This is the profound and sometimes painful mystery of community and love.
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#50. Mack was lying in the darkness, listening intently. "Aren't you talking about a real indwelling, not just some positional, theological thing?" "Of course," answered Jesus, his voice strong and sure.
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#51. My purposes are always and only an expression of love. I purpose to work life out of death, to bring freedom out of brokenness and turn darkness into light.
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