William P. Young Quotes
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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.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.
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So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?
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I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.
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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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So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
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You are free to love without an agenda
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Love always leaves a significant mark.
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.
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Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
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I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.
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Did I hear God call me an idiot?
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Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.
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My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
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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.
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Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
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The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.
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Emotions are the colors of the soul.
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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.
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I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.
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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.