64 Quotes by Wm. Paul 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 am especially fond of you.

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.

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

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.

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.

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

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.