Quotes from William P. Young

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

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

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

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

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

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

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.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

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

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

Nothing in life is ritual.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

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.

when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.