“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.” YearsFacesFatherDifficultExampleDadMy DadPainfulPreacherWipe Author:William P. Young
“Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.” HumansLooksHuman BeingsEasier Author:William P. Young
“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.” IfsSelfJudgingBasesWestTheologyImagerySelf CenteredPissed OffLove And RelationshipUnreachable 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.” BookStoriesKidsFictionConversationTheologyControversyFlawedSystematicNew Books 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.” HumansStillsSoulHandsFormMotherUniverseFatherStuffParentHuman BeingsWonderCreatorCeaseTimingMasterpieceGeneticsMother And FatherFlawless 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 CanOur LivesGoodnessSaved 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.” 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