I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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.
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Without a song, each day would be a century.
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.
The trouble with records is that they're too short.
Money just draws flies.
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
Everybody needs somebody.
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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