William P. Young Quotes - Page 2

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• You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

  William P. Young

  Want, Soil, Embrace

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• 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.

  William P. Young

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

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• You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.

  William P. Young

  Giving, One Day, Each Day

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• when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.

  William P. Young

  Together We Can, Together, Happens

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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.

  William P. Young

  Self, Judging, Pissed Off

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• I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.

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  Religious, Women, Fall

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• Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

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  Relationship, Love And Respect, Obedience

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• "So, why do I have so much fear in my life?" "Because you don't believe. You don't know that we love you. The person who lives by his fears will not find freedom in my love. I am not talking about rational fears regarding legitimate dangers, but imagined fears, and especially the projection of those into the future. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe that I am good not know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it, you talk about it, but you don't know it."

  William P. Young

  Believe, Love You, Heart

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

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• 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.

  William P. Young

  Giving, Pieces, Want

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

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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.

  William P. Young

  Relationship, Believe, Knowing

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• 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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  Brother, Circles, Want

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• Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

  William P. Young

  Pain, Loss, Suffering

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• The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  Children, Healing, Healed You

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• 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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  Law, Independence, Trying

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• Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

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  Love Is, Stronger, Faults

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

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• My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

  William P. Young

  Dad, Father, Years

  "'Cross Roads': A Writing Career Built On Faith". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 1, 2012.

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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.

  William P. Young

  Thinking, Identity, Who We Are

  Interview with C.J. Darlington, Miriam Parker, Deena Peterson, Melissa J. Carswell, www.titletrakk.com.

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• Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Way

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

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• You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

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  Community, Heal

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• Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

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  Love Is, Flying, Shack Book

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• Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

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  Relationship, Shack, Shack Book

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

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• 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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  Relationship, Hurt, Pain

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• Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.

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  Real, People, Forgiving

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• 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.

  William P. Young

  Expectations, Judgement, Guilt

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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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  Father, Mean, Roots

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