Quotes by William Paul Young

Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. Its not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

I am what some would say holy, and wholly other than you. The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isnt much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. Im not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

If you are able to judge God so easily, you certainly can judge the world. You must choose two of your children to spend eternity in Gods new heavens and new earth....And you must choose three of your children to spend eternity in hell.....I am only asking you to do something that you believe God does. He knows every person ever conceived, and he knows them so much more deeply and clearly than you will ever know your own children...You believe he will condemn most to an eternity of torment, away from his presence and apart from his love.Mack: I dont want to be the judge...I cant do this. You suppose then that God does this so easily, but you cannot?This couldnt be real. How could God ask him to choose among his own children? Even if Katie or Josh, or Jon or Tyler committed some heinous crime, he still wouldnt do it. He couldnt! For him, it wasnt about their performance; it was about his love for them. Mack: I cant, I cant....Could I go instead?....Ill go in their place...Could I do that? He fell at her feet crying and begging now. Please let me go for my children..I am begging you. Please...Please...-Now you sound like Jesus.....That is how Jesus loves.

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

Even though you cant finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Remember, that choosing to stay on the ground is a choice to facilitate a relationship, to honor it. You dont 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... It is not about winning and losing, but about love and respect.

He doesn’t stop a lot of things that cause him pain. Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now you are angry with the one who loved you enough to give it to you. Nothing is as it should be, as Papa desires it to be, and as it will be one day. Right now your world is lost in darkness and chaos, and horrible things happen to those that he is especially fond of… Papa has never needed evil to accomplish his good purposes. It is you humans who have embraced evil and Papa has responded with goodness. What happened to Missy was the work of evil and no one in your world is immune from it.”~Sophia

oh my soul...be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions

Faith does not grow in a house of certainty.

So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they dont know me at all.

When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesnt stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

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