William P. Young Quotes - Page 6

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• 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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  Motivation, Struggle, Feelings

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• 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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  Heart, Issues, Stuff

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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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• Emotions are the colors of the soul.

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  Color, Soul, Emotion

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

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  Father, My Family, Disconnected

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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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• 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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• 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 make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

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  Real, Thinking, Fiction

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

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• Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.

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  Mother, Father, Hands

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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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• 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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• Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

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  Religious, Dad, Father

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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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• The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

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  Enemy, Obscurity, Controversy

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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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• Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

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  Memories, Irritation, Missing

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

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  Race, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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