Money just draws flies.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

Not to remember is not an option.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

I have always advised men to read

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.