193 Quotes by William P. Young

Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot ‘do’ humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.

The ‘will to power and independence’ has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

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

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

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

I don’t want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had – Plato’s white grandfatherly god – because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can’t trust him with your kids.

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.

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.

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