William P. Young
William P. Young
William Paul Youngis a Canadian author. He wrote the novels The Shack, Cross Roads and Eve...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 May 1955
CountryCanada
William P. Young quotes about
pain loss suffering
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
jesus father heart
I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.
love-is stronger faults
[...] love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.
pain wings able
Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.
matter shack shack-book
If anything matters, then everything matters.
pain cutting men
Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.
heart issues stuff
I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.
truth-will-set-you-free names
Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name...
wings bird shack
Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.
children passion choices
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.
children greed would-be
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.
significant mark love-always
Love always leaves a significant mark.
father mean roots
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.
jesus challenges dogma
Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.