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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If anything matters, then everything matters.

  William P. Young

  Matter, Shack, Ifs

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

  William P. Young

  Punishment, Sin, Shack

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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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• ...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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• 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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• "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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• Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.

  William P. Young

  Jesus, Mean, Doe

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• I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think.

  William P. Young

  Fall, Thinking, Who I Am

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• You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.

  William P. Young

  Giving, One Day, Each Day

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• I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.

  William P. Young

  Giving, Pieces, Want

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

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• Emotions are the colors of the soul.

  William P. Young

  Color, Soul, Emotion

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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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• 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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• In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.

  William P. Young

  Book, Communication, Voice

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

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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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• You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

  William P. Young

  Children, Color, Games

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