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“It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...”

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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

“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.”

Want Heart Use Father Jesus Grew My Heart Grew Up Concepts Angry Likes Healed Narcissistic Save Me Schizophrenic Untrustworthy Unreachable Crashing Down

Author:William P. Young

“It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?”

Long Long Ago Cleaning Toilets

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“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.”

People Thinking Way Needs Giving Book Different Enough Stories Literature Language Religious Modern Fit Conversation Structure West Different Ways

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“I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.”

Thinking Knows Real Stories Happens Fiction Events Distinction Embedded Parables

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“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”

Feelings Political Nature Power Military Fine Exercise Noble Presidential Destructive Paradox Finest Unlimited Paradoxical Power Corrupts Unlimited Power Presidents Day Great Presidents

Book:William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“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.”

People Mean Faces Father Grew Grew Up Roots Helpful Protestants Evangelical Fundamentalist God Image Pharisees

Author:William P. Young

“Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.”

Knows Jesus Challenges Dogma

Author:William P. Young

“I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.”

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“You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.”

Knows Flower Roots God Knows Only God Knows

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“My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.”

Years Faces Father Difficult Example Dad My Dad Painful Preacher Wipe

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