William P. Young Quotes
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Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
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Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.
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It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
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Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
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You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
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The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
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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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You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
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Nothing in life is ritual.
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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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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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Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence
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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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Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .
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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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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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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
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Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
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Love always leaves a significant mark.
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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.