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William Paul Young QUOTES

1 " Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

2 " All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

3 " So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

4 " Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

5 " I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

6 " Did I hear God call me an idiot? "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

7 " Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known. "

― William Paul Young

8 " those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

9 " Remember, that choosing to stay on the ground is a choice to facilitate a relationship, to honor it. 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 about winning and losing, but about love and respect. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

10 " He doesn’t stop a lot of things that cause him pain. Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now you are angry with the one who loved you enough to give it to you. Nothing is as it should be, as Papa desires it to be, and as it will be one day. Right now your world is lost in darkness and chaos, and horrible things happen to those that he is especially fond of… Papa has never needed evil to accomplish his good purposes. It is you humans who have embraced evil and Papa has responded with goodness. What happened to Missy was the work of evil and no one in your world is immune from it.”
~Sophia "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

William Paul Young QUOTES

11 " oh my soul...be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

12 " Faith does not grow in a house of certainty. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

13 " I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. "

― William Paul Young

14 " 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? "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

15 " religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all. "

― William Paul Young

16 " When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly. "

― William Paul Young

17 " Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. "

― William Paul Young

18 " I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

19 " Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack

20 " Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me. "

― William Paul Young , The Shack