Mahalia Jackson

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

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!