William P. Young Quotes

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

Nothing in life is ritual.

Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

I'm an accidental writer.

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.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.