Top 100 Wm. Paul Young Quotes
#1. Home is not as much about a place you belong, as people you belong to.
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#2. Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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#3. Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
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#4. We rightly feel fury, but we must not let go of joy's embrace, which is beyond our understanding.
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#5. Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
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#6. Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?'
Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will; I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.
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#7. If I gave up - " "Then you would begin to know the wonder and adventure of living in me,
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#8. You know that place: where there is just you alone - and maybe God, if you believe in him. Of course, God might be there even if you don't believe in him. That would be just like him. He hasn't been called the Grand Interferer for nothing.
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#9. And the Law that once contained impossible demands
Thou Shalt Not ...
actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.
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#10. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
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#11. Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
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#12. The right book, like the right song or the right love, can change the entire cosmos, for the right person, of course. And then it spills out from there.
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#13. It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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#14. I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.
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#15. It is quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away util they simply no longer matter. -pg. 114.
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#16. 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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#17. But you gotta admit, rules and principles are simpler than relationships.
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#18. Those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
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#19. The God who is - the I am who I am - cannot act apart from love!
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#20. Mackenzie, the truth shall set you free and the truth has a name; he's over in the woodshop right now covered in sawdust. Everything is about him. And freedom is a process that happens inside a relationship with him. Then all that stuff you feel churnin' around inside will start to work its way out.
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#21. Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.
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#22. Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to ... '
To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But as long as you think you do, you will surely get ticked off when someone cuts you off, even if it is God.
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#23. It didn't matter to him, he realized, whether he had to swim the distance or walk on water, as wonderful as the latter was. What mattered was that Jesus was with him. Perhaps he was beginning to trust him after all, even if it was only in baby steps.
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#24. John, we cannot allow the shadow-sickness to find a place inside our hearts. In this broken cosmos we grieve. We rightly feel fury, but we must not let go of joy's embrace, which is beyond our understanding. To feel all of this means that we are alive.
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#25. 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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#26. Transformation
without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change.
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#27. Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.
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#28. I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.
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#29. There are millions of reasons to allow pain and hurt and suffering rather than to eradicate them, but most of those reasons can be understood only within each person's story.
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#30. 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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#31. You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.
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#32. 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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#33. It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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#34. In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all..
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#35. I don't believe in God. I know God! Once you know someone, believing is no longer a concern.
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#36. Mackenzie, judgment is not about destruction, but about setting things right.
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#37. 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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#38. Many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. Love is just the skin of knowing.
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#39. 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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#40. Through ... lies you try to run your life and manipulate others ... Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship ...
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#41. (Jesus speaking) An awful lot of what is done in my name has nothing to do with me and is often, even if unintentional, very contrary to my purposes.
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#42. The Bible doesn't teach you to follow rules. It is a picture of Jesus. While words may tell you what God is like and even what he may want from you, you cannot do any of it on your own. Life and living are in him and in no other.
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#43. Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
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#44. Such a lie is unloving. In the name of caring about her, your lie became an inhibitor in your relationship with her,
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#45. Mackenzie, this world is full of tears, but if you remember I proimsed that it would be Me who would wipe them from your eyes.
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#46. For now most of what exists in the universe will be seen and enjoyed only by me, like special canvasses in the back of an artist's studio, but one day ...
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#47. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.
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#48. Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.
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#49. Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
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#50. If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.
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#51. Be willing to re-examine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly.
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#52. What do I do now?" "You wait," declared Mary. "For the appointed time. And while you wait, your work each day is to trust Him in whatever lies before you. When time is full, my Son will come for you and take you to the grandest wedding celebration,
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#53. [ ... ] love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.
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#55. This garden is your soul. This mess is you! Together, you and I, we have been working with a purpose in your heart. And it is wild and beautiful and perfectly in process. To you it seems like a mess, but I see a perfect pattern emerging and growing and alive - a living fractal.
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#56. 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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#57. Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now you are angry with the One who loved you enough to give it to you.
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#58. Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
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#59. Am one God and I am three persons, and each of the three is fully and entirely the one.
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#60. There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.
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#61. Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don't feel, the world becomes dull and colorless.
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#62. 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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#63. One never knows if anything's a good idea. You just make a choice and go with the flow and see what happens. You only get one day's worth of grace, so why not spend it extravagantly.
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#64. Genuine relationships are marked by submission even when your choices are not helpful or healthy.
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#65. Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.
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#66. Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
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#67. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter.
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#68. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
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#70. Humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
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#71. I came to give you life, real life, my life. We will come and live our life inside you, so that you begin to see with our eyes, and hear with our ears, and touch with our hands, and think like we do. But we will never force that union on you. If
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#72. PIE God enters by a private door, into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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#73. Humans have a great capacity for declaring something good or evil, without truly knowing.
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#74. Mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.
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#75. Scholars," he said, "are an erudite lot who study this or that and can talk about it in prodigious detail. Very smart and unendingly educated, Scholars! They can explain almost anything, even if it isn't true.
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#76. Cabby was saying
"someday" ... someday Tony would love him. He hoped it might
be true. Perhaps Cabby knew things that he didn't
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#77. 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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#78. Great! she thought. I died again and this is hell and there is a man in it.
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#79. But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.
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#80. Love will never condemn you for being lost, but love will not let you stay there alone, even though it will never force you to come out of your hiding places.
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#81. When I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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#82. You have judged them worthy of love, even if it cost you everything. That is how Jesus loves.
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#83. 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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#84. Judging requires that you think yourself superior to the one you judge.
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#85. 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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#86. Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
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#87. We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgment as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm us in it. Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means.
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#88. Perhaps true hangs increased the space in one's heart, creating openness that allowed for authentic community.
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#89. It does a soul good let the waters run once in awhile-the healing waters. -pg. 85
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#90. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love.
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#91. Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
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#92. Since there were three of them, maybe this was a Trinity sort of thing. But two women and a man and none of them white?
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#93. Religion must use law to empower itself and control the people who they need in order to survive.
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#94. Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
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#95. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
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#96. It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.
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#97. But, enough of that for now. Let's get lost again in the starry night.
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#98. Everything in its time, and timing is God's playground. Trust me, being surprised by everything is so much better than needing to control everything.
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#99. Jesus?" he whispered as his voice choked "I feel so lost"
A hand reached out and squeezed his, and didn't let go. "I know Mack. But it's not true. I am with you and I'm not lost. I'm sorry it feels that way, but hear me clearly. You are not lost.
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#100. You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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