We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you in it.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross and the miracle of the resurrection.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

When you're really filled with the Holy Ghost it is impossible for those around you not to know it.

And when you can't do nothing else - pray.

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?

The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.

Remember that only God can judge us; forget the haters, because Somebody loves you.

I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt.