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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Games, Despair, Slides

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• 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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  Children, Greed, Would Be

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

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• Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.

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  Children, Passion, Choices

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• Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

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  Truth Will Set You Free, Names

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• It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

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  Events, Action, Remarkable

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

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  Believe, I Believe, Sin

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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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• 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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• Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.

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  Children, Blow, Giving

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