Quotes by Marvin Sapp

About Marvin Sapp:

Pastor Marvin Louis Sapp is an American Gospel music singer-songwriter who recorded with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a record-breaking solo career. Sapp is also the founder and senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

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Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things.

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The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live.

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We live in a world full of people who are ready to be uplifted.

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The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

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I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

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D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

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Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

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The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

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Some things you just don't get over.

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I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.

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I just believe that whatever I post should be my content.

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My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

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My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

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One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.

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I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.

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Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.

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We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

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I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.

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Sometimes I still wonder what my fans look like, but if I had to describe them, I'd say that they are everyday people with everyday needs who need a supernatural message to help them though their natural walk.

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Author Bio

  • NameMarvin Sapp
  • DescriptionAmerican gospel singer
  • BornJanuary 28, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Composer