I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“Religion must use law to empower itself and control the people who they need in order to survive.” — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“(Jesus speaking) "An awful lot of what is done in my name has nothing to do with me and is often, even if unintentional,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
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… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself. — William P. Young Copy Share Image