Quotes of: Gospel-music Keyword

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will ...

Anne Lamott

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and s...

Daryl Hall

One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was...

China Anne McClain

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuse...

Patty Griffin

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jeff...

B. B. King

If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have b...

Henry Rollins

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. B...

Randy Travis

Any freedom that can be given can be taken away.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel.

John Paul Warren

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

David A. Bednar

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine of Hippo

Mamma says she is quite certain that "how old is too old?" is not a question known to the Lord.

The Gospel According to Mamma

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time.

Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms

I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.

Boris Kodjoe

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Oswald Chambers

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.

Alan Jackson

This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered w...

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out