I am especially fond of you. William P. Young More Quotes by William P. Young More Quotes From William P. Young 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. William P. Young cutting pain men 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 William P. Young verbs alive reality 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. William P. Young law missing order 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. William P. Young creative journey thinking 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. William P. Young father son jesus Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time. William P. Young mysterious damage healing The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky William P. Young healed-you healing children 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 joy people 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 shack limits way 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. William P. Young ocean rivers beautiful If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter. William P. Young laughter flower laughing when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you. William P. Young together-we-can together happens You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody. William P. Young beautiful-mess melody beautiful I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people. William P. Young raised situation people 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 who-i-am fall thinking If anything matters, then everything matters. William P. Young shack-book shack matter It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives. William P. Young remarkable events action 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. William P. Young motivation struggle feelings It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair. William P. Young despair slides games Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true. William P. Young metaphor believe
