193 Quotes by William P. Young

I don’t need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It’s not my purpose to punish it; it’s my joy to cure it.

I’m an accidental writer.

Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

You don’t 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.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it’s going to take time.

And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it’s not about pleasing God, it’s about learning how to trust God. That’s a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.

Jesus is not the ’founder of Christianity.

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.

I have moments that aren’t too bad, but there’s always something I’m struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.