Memorable Quotes from The Shack - Part II

If you missed Memorable Quotes from The Shack - Part I, click here to check it out! Here are four more thought-provoking quotes from this mind-blowing book by Wm. Paul Young.

ON SCIENCE

"'That is the wonder and adventure of exploration, a piece of what you call science--to discern and discover what we have hidden for you to find.'

'So why did you hide it?' Mack inquired.

'Why do children love to play hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.'" (p. 139)

ON THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

"'I mean, look at this mess.' His gaze moved over the garden that surrounded them. 'But it really is beautiful, and full of you, Sarayu [author's name for the Holy Spirit]. Even though it seems like lots of work still needs to be done, I feel strangely at home and comfortable here.'

The two looked at each other and grinned.

Sarayu stepped toward him until she had invaded his personal space. 'And well you should, Mackenzie, because this garden is your soul. This mess is you! Together, you and I, we have been working with a purpose in your heart. And it is wild and beautiful and perfectly in process. To you it seems like a mess, but I see and perfect pattern emerging and growing and alive...'" (p. 146)

ON GOD AS SERVANT

"'Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?'

'Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to do my will; I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.'

'And that's how you want us to love one another, I suppose? I mean between husbands and wives, parents and children. I guess in any relationship?'

'Exactly! When I am your life, submission is the most natural expression of my character and nature, and it will be the most natural expression of your new nature within relationships.'" (p. 155)

ON MALES AND FEMALES

"'But you came in the form of a man. Doesn't that say something?'

'Yes, but not what many have assumed. I came as a man to complete a wonderful picture in how we made you. From the first day we hid the woman within the man, so that at the right time we could remove her from within him. We didn't create man to live alone; she was purposed from the beginning. By taking her out of him, he birthed her in a sense. We created a circle of relationship, like our own, but for humans. She, out of him, and now all the males, including me [Jesus] birthed through her, and all originating, or birthed, from God.'" (p. 158)