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
heart healing water
Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
relationship shack shack-book
Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
relationship fruit shack
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
love-is flying shack-book
Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.
love-is stronger faults
[...] love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.
matter shack shack-book
If anything matters, then everything matters.
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...
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.
heart thinking belief
Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.
agreement ongoing belief
The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.
children desire purpose
It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.