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

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.

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.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

I started wondering if God really existed. The world seemed too empty and lonely for there to be a God in it. But I figured he must exist because I kept blaming everything on him.

Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

What we value determines what we do.

You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy." "He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.

We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.

Security isn't having things, it's handling things.