William P. Young Quotes
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
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.
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.
I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
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.
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.
Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
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.
It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.
"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."
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.
...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.
God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.
when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.
I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
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.
Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .
Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
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.
