Eve Quotes

“I don’t believe in God. I know God! Once you know someone, believing is no longer a concern.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“every person is a story and therefore is a storyteller. Trouble is that many fear failure, so they never begin.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“You have the freedom to trust and the freedom to turn. This is the profound and sometimes painful mystery of community and love.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“God gently reached around His son, embracing him.

"Love takes risks, dear one. You have the freedom to say no to Us, no to Love, to turn your face away."

Adam frowned. "And if I did such a thing, what would happen?"

"In turning you would find within yourself a shadow. This darkening would become more real to you than I am. From then, until you re-turned your face to Mine, this empty nothingness would deceive you about everything, including who We are to you, and who you are to all creation.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“Our deep longings remind us we have lost something vital and precious. Such yearnings are the stirring of hope. Of returning.” “Returning where?” “To this garden.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“Everything in its time, and timing is God’s playground. Trust me, being surprised by everything is so much better than needing to control everything.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“The right book, like the right song or the right love, can change the entire cosmos, for the right person, of course. And then it spills out from there.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“If a lie gets too much attention, it can grow.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“Letting go is also a returning.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“we cannot allow the shadow-sickness to find a place inside our hearts. In this broken cosmos we grieve. We rightly feel fury, but we must not let go of joy’s embrace, which is beyond our understanding. To feel all of this means that we are alive.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“The right book, like the right song or the right love, can change the entire cosmos, for the right person, of course. And then it spills out from there.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“God asks for trust,” Eve declared. “I was wrong to turn.” “But why didn’t God stop you? Why did God let you turn your face away?” “Lilly, I have learned that God has more respect for me than I do for myself, that God submits to the choices I make, that my ability to say no and turn my face away is essential for Love to be Love. Adonai has never hidden His face from me, nor has He kept from me the consequences of my choosing. That is why many of my sons and my daughters curse the face and name of God. But God refuses to be like what we have become and take power and dominion. He has the audacity to consent and even submit to all our choosing. Then He joins us in the darkness we create because of all our turning.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“We are thankful for the gifts that surround us, and then we let them go, trusting that nothing will be lost, even if we lose it for a time.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“My dear, how will you ever learn unless you first don't know?”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“roads are rarely what they appear to be and are not predictable. Maybe safe is about the company you keep and not about the road you take?”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“And you’re my mother? How can you be my mother? You’re . . .” “Black?” She laughed so cleanly and joyfully that Lilly couldn’t help but join her, though still completely perplexed. “Dear one, how beautiful is black, which includes and keeps all color?”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“In any dance you sometimes lead, but always both submit.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“This being requires no proof of love. They are bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, and for them my everlasting Love and affection will never be diminished. They cannot drift into unworthiness.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“Scholars," he said, "are an erudite lot who study this or that and can talk about it in prodigious detail. Very smart and unendingly educated, Scholars! They can explain almost anything, even if it isn't true.”
― Wm. Paul Young, Eve

“What's shadow-sick?' she asked.
'You might call it 'heartsick' or 'soul-sick',' answered Anita. 'It happens when humans turn from face-to-face trust and let the darkness of death enter them. Thanks to Adam, we all have inherited shadow-sickness in our mortality. Resisting it is the war in which we are all engaged.'
'Is your colleague being guarded, then?' John asked.
'No, she is being companioned inside a community to the north,' Anita said. 'It is a guarding of sorts--but *for*, not *against*. The purpose is to help her turn once again toward life.' She addressed Lilly. 'We learned long ago that shadow-sickness feeds on isolation. So we take our stand against it by protecting relationships of intentional love and kindness.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“... trust is linked with relationship, not power. When two people dance, each of them follows the other with respect.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“A true love requires the freedom of acting. If someone doesn't have the right to refuse, love will never be true, but an illusion.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“A true friends don't have secrets, only surprises which they keep for some other moment.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“A wish for control has replaced trust, intentions have replaced word, power has replaced mutual relationship and love.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“A healthy apple looks different every moment because it's based on mutual respect.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“The power of experience is difficult to reject.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“If the lies is paid too much of an attention, it can grow.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“... in the ocean of space only one pebble is enough to stir it's surface and change it forever.”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“Every day Adam would come to Eden’s boundary, and every day I would sit and listen to his appeal. As furious as I was with him for all his betrayal, I didn’t want him to believe that I had abandoned him. Perhaps this desire to reach out to the other, to make amends and repair loss, to build a bridge and heal, is a part of God’s maternal being that is in all of us. Womb- love, mercy!”
― William Paul Young, Eve

“Everlasting God! Adonai!” Lilly was entranced; every part of her longed to run to Him and tell Him all her secrets, to be remade, to melt into his magnificence, to find rest from her shame. Here stood trustworthiness.”
― William Paul Young, Eve