Explore Quotes by William P. Young

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.'

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

I'm an accidental writer.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.

You are free to love without an agenda

I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive

There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.

You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.

Love always leaves a significant mark.