William P. Young Quotes - Page 4

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• Nothing in life is ritual.

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  Life Is, Ritual

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• I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.

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  Tired, Thinking, Names

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• 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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  Religious, Real, Differences

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• So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

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  Men, Anxiety, Care

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• You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

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  Beautiful, Beautiful Mess, Melody

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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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• 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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• ...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 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 intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

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  Beautiful, Soul, Fragility

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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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• I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

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  Father, My Family, Disconnected

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• Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

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  Journey, Space, Soul

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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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  Running, Lying, Trying

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• Emotions are the colors of the soul.

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  Color, Soul, Emotion

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• Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

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  Believe, Metaphor

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• Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.

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  Want, Stills, Known

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

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• Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.

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  Powerful, Lying, Safe

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• 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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  Way, Shack, Force

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• True love never forces.

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  Force

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