“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.” KnowsNeedsFeelsTryingLittlesFeelingsRunningPainLyingPowerfulLike YouWallProtectSafeOkayJustificationManipulateOne You LoveSomeone You LoveFortressesWhatever WorksFeeling Pain Author:William P. Young
“I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsGivingBookDifferentEnoughStoriesLiteratureLanguageReligiousModernFitConversationStructureWestDifferent Ways Author:William P. Young
“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.” KnowsNeedsHumansChildrenMightDesirePurposeAsksUnfoldingFabricatePurpose Of God Author:William P. Young
“Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to help her but most have simply tried to use her. Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs. And they give little thought for their own children who will inherit their lack of love. So they use her and abuse her with little consideration and then when she shudders of blows her breath. They are offended and raise their fist at God.” WorldNeedsGivingHumansChildrenLittlesHas BeensHelpingUseEarthGivenParentTasksAbuseBreathsRaisesEnvironmentalBlowGuidesConsiderationOffendedFistsStewardshipSteersPlunderLack Of Love Author:William P. Young
“You need boundaries... Even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river.” NeedsBeautifulCreationMaterialsMountainOceanRiversMarkBoundariesShoreCanyons Author:William P. Young
“I don't need to punish people for sin. 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.” PeopleNeedsJoyPurposeSinPunishmentCuresDevouringShackShack Book Author:William P. Young
“Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.” NeedsMeanPurposeSufferingGraceColorDependsTragedyAssumingNotionIncrediblesAccomplishFacetsUnspeakableShackShack Book Author:William P. Young
“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.” MenNeedsHardHandsTurnsDifficultSecurityIdentityReturnProtectSignificanceQuestsReturn To Me Author:William P. Young
“Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.” NeedsKindEndsLawOrderWonderMissingProtectCommandChainsEnforcementHierarchyChain Of CommandLaws And Rules Author:William P. Young
“Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.” IfsNeedsMadeWould BeJesusCreationConversationGloryConcernRegardStructureSignificantHierarchyCrowning Glory Author:William P. Young
