“Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.” Quote by 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.” BelieveGovernmentPurposeI BelievePoorRich 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.” EvilAbilityEssentialsCoreGrandeurAbility To Choose 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.” CountryPainChallengesCitiesKnowingTownsSmall TownSmallnessCity And Country 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.” ThinkingProcessFictionCreativeJourneyWildernessDickensDostoyevsky 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.” ThinkingTryingHeartIdeasTogetherFatherImaginationReligiousMy OwnGoneDadExpectationsAngryMy DadDamageTruthfulAltruismMy ImaginationProjectionReconcileLove And Forgiveness Author:William P. Young
“I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingHumansI CanSoulJobsSpaceCreativeLetting GoReach OutBe CreativeCreative WritingHuman Soul Author:William P. Young
“And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.” DifferentWholeCoursesHugeTrust In GodAppeasementBallgameWatershedsPleasing God Author:William P. Young
“The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.” HeartDepthArrivalsUnforeseen Author:William P. Young
“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.” ThinkingHeartBeliefMillionsConversationWesternIncrediblesAcceptedWholenessRationalismImpediments Author:William P. Young