Top 41 William P. Young Quotes
#1. I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
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#3. 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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#4. 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.
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#5. You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.
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#12. The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
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#13. Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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#17. It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real.
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#18. Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
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#19. I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.
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#21. 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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#23. Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.
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#25. 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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#27. I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had
Plato's white grandfatherly god
because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.
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#30. I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.
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#31. 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 happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.
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#32. 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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#33. 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.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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#38. It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
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#39. 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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#40. I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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#41. I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
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