Al R. Young Quotes

It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

Emotions are the color of the soul.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.

They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

I was a dreamer. When I was on stage I didn't have to think about whether I could pay the rent. I was just having a great time.

And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.

The apostates think that everybody is wrong but themselves.

I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.

Money came my way but wasn't really in the plan, so I didn't know how to deal with it.

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

I can make things happen when plays break down.

Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful.

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

If anything matters, then everything matters.