There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important. William P. Young More Quotes by William P. Young More Quotes From William P. Young 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. William P. Young desire children needs There is only one race ... and it is human! William P. Young humans race Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing. William P. Young irritation missing memories 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. William P. Young ongoing agreement belief The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity. William P. Young controversy obscurity enemy 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. William P. Young kids book fiction Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love. William P. Young easier humans looks Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies. William P. Young wall pain running This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come. William P. Young greater life reality 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. William P. Young who-we-are identity thinking I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus. William P. Young santa god trying 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. William P. Young emotion self mind 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. William P. Young tired names thinking I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family. William P. Young disconnected my-family father 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. William P. Young space soul journey Emotions are the colors of the soul. William P. Young emotion color soul I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. William P. Young deep-affection inspiration believe 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 I'm an accidental writer. William P. Young 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. William P. Young fragility soul beautiful
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