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Quote by William P. Young

“Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.”

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William P. Young, born on May 11, 1955, is an American author whose novel 'The Shack' has gained worldwide attention and become a bestseller. His work has sparked widespread discussions about religion and the meaning of life. more

“We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.”

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Author:William P. Young

“I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.”

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Author:William P. Young

“Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.”

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Author:William P. Young

“Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.”

I Can Our Lives Goodness Saved

Author:William P. Young

“I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

Believe Government Purpose I Believe Poor Rich

Author:William Henry Harrison

“The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.”

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Author:William P. Young

“City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.”

Country Pain Challenges Cities Knowing Towns Small Town Smallness City And Country

Author:William P. Young

“I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.”

Author:William P. Young

“I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.”

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Author:William P. Young

“Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.”

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