Shack Book Quotes

• Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

  William P. Young

  Relationship, Fruit, Shack

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• Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

  William P. Young

  Color, Grace, Suffering

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

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• Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

  William P. Young

  Mean, Color, Grace

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• All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

  William P. Young

  Relationship, Jobs, People

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

  William P. Young

  Relationship, Shack, Bits

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

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• Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

  William P. Young

  Pain, Wings, Able

  "The Shack". Book by Wm Paul Young, May, 2007.

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• If anything matters, then everything matters.

  William P. Young

  Matter, Shack, Ifs

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• I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

  William P. Young

  Punishment, People, Joy

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

  William P. Young

  Punishment, Sin, Shack

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• Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

  William P. Young

  Wings, Bird, Shack

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, July 17, 2008.

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• You are free to love without an agenda

  William P. Young

  Agendas, Shack, Same Love

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• No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Levels, May, Matter

  Jacques Ellul (2011). “Anarchy and Christianity”, p.34, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• "Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

  William P. Young

  Pain, Wings, Able

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

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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.

  William P. Young

  Way, Shack, Force

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• Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

  William P. Young

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgive And Forget

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• You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

  William P. Young

  Humility, Like You, Shack

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

  William P. Young

  Love Is, Flying, Limitation

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• Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.

  William P. Young

  Love, Unique, Two

  "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.

  William P. Young

  Relationship, Hurt, Pain

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• religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.

  William P. Young

  Smart, People, Brain

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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.

  William P. Young

  Voice, Paper, Authority

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

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• ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

  William P. Young

  Kindness, Heart, Forgiving

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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.

  William P. Young

  Way, Limits, Shack

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

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• Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

  William P. Young

  Reality, Data, Normal

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