Gospel Quotes

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

I listen to gospel music.

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

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

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.