Al Purdy Quotes
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
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I really think there are many great organizations out there getting the word out about LGBT youth and bullying, but GLAAD has this way of making sure the stories about gay people are sent out and heard and not covered up, and I like that.
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Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
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I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
