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 Copy Share Image
Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to...' To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“Mackenzie, I am what some would say ‘holy, and wholly other than you.’ The problem is that many folks try to grasp… — 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 think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — 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
