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41 " Evil is a word we use to describe the absence of Good, just as we use the word darkness to describe the absence of Light or death to describe the absence of Life. Both evil and darkness can only be understood in relation to Light and Good; they do not have any actual existence. I am Light and I am Good. I am Love and there is no darkness in me. Light and Good actually exist. So, removing yourself from me will plunge you into darkness. Declaring independence will result in evil because apart from me, you can only draw upon yourself. That is death because you have separated yourself from me: Life…This could mean that in once instance, the good may be the presence of cancer or the loss of income—or even a life.”~Sarayu "
― William Paul Young , The Shack
42 " 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 "
43 " Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. There are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay bout the lies. "
44 " Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies. "
45 " Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don't feel, the world becomes dull and colorless. "
― William Paul Young
46 " 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. "
47 " Home is not as much about a place you belong, as people you belong to. "
48 " Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. "
― William Paul Young , Cross Roads
49 " Being always transcends appearance---that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter. "
50 " Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together. "
51 " Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. "
52 " Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. "
53 " Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception—what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. "
54 " It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainty out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse. "
55 " You look as if you're from the Middle East, maybe Arab?" Mack guessed. "
56 " I may have convinced myself or been convinced by others that I deserve to be separated from God. Such lies will bring with them a shadow in which I experience a sense of separation, feelings that seem to validate the illusion that God is not connected and in relationship with me or that God has stopped loving me or has given up on me. Many of us on the planet live in this illusion now. "
― William Paul Young , Lies We Believe About God
57 " 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. "
58 " Mackenzie, 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 thebest 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 itfalls pitifully short of who I really am. I’m not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am farmore than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think. "
59 " [...] love is much stronger than your fault could ever be. "
60 " Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life. "