William P. Young Quotes - Page 4

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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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  Growing Up, Plato, Father

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• 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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  Voice, Paper, Authority

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, books.google.ru. June 20, 2008.

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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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  Self, Judging, Pissed Off

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• Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

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  Pain, Cutting, Men

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• ...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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  Mean, Shack, Intention

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• Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself - to serve. Humans often do this - in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whos minds have left to wander, in relation to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the others who has assumed a position of power over them.

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  Caring, Position Of Power, Sick

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• I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

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  Journey, Thinking, Creative

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• I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive

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  Reality, Verbs, Alive

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• Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.

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  Order, Law, Missing

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• I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.

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  Jesus, Father, Son

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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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  Way, Limits, Shack

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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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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  Beautiful, Ocean, Rivers

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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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  Agreement, Ongoing, Belief

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• There is only one race ... and it is human!

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  Race, Humans

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• I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

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  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!

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  Dream, Jesus, Father

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• City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

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  Country, Pain, Cities

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• I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.

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  Believe, I Believe, Sin

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• It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

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  Children, Desire, Needs

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• I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.

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  Religious, Book, Thinking

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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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  Long Ago, Long, Toilets

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• It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

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  Real, Impossible

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May 2007.

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• Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

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  Punishment, Sin, Shack

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• Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.

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  Regret, Believe, Names

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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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  Goodness, I Can, Saved

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