Top 80 William P. Young Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.”

— William P. Young

52. “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.”

— William P. Young

53. “Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.”

— William P. Young

54. “Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don’t misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.”

— William P. Young

55. “Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.”

— William P. Young

56. “Today’s minor irritations may become tomorrow’s treasured memories. We often don’t know what we are missing, until it’s missing.”

— William P. Young

57. “I don’t just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.”

— William P. Young

58. “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.”

— William P. Young

59. “Thank goodness there are women in our lives – that’s all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.”

— William P. Young

60. “Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.”

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

62. “I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.”

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

64. “Even though you can’t finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.”

— William P. Young

65. “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.”

— William P. Young

66. “The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one’s heart.”

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

68. “I’m not an actual author but an accidental one.”

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

70. “Nothing in life is ritual.”

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

73. “The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.”

— William P. Young

74. “It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.”

— William P. Young

75. “Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.”

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

77. “The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.”

— William P. Young

78. “I’m an accidental writer.”

— William P. Young

79. “Look at us human beings: it’s so much easier to be right than to love.”

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

81. “You cannot produce trust just like you cannot ‘do’ humility. It either is or is not.”

— William P. Young

82. “I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.”

— William P. Young

83. “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.”

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

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

— William P. Young

86. “I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.”

— William P. Young