William P. Young Quotes - Page 4

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• This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

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  Life, Reality, Greater

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• Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

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  Pain, Loss, Hands

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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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• 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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• 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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• ...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 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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• 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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• I am especially fond of you.

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• If you and I are friends, there is an expectancy that exists within our relationship. When we see each other or are apart, there is an expectancy of being together, of laughing and talking. The expectancy has no concrete definition; it is alive and dynamic and everything that emerges from our being together is a unique gift shared by no one else.

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  Unique, Talking, Laughing

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• True love never forces.

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  Force

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

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  Enemy, Obscurity, Controversy

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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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• 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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