Mahalia Jackson Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Mahalia Jackson

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

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Everybody needs somebody.
- Mahalia Jackson

This is the place to see the stars -
Hollywood Bowl.
- Mahalia Jackson

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
- Mahalia Jackson

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

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
- Mahalia Jackson

I don't worry too much about the script,
I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
- Mahalia Jackson

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The Lord doesn't like us to be dead.
Be alive.
Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord,
because He said so.
- Mahalia Jackson

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same
trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
- Mahalia Jackson

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
- Mahalia Jackson

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!
- Mahalia Jackson

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of
heaven and pour blessings upon you.
- Mahalia Jackson

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
- Mahalia Jackson

Put your mind on the gospel.
And remember - there's one God for all.
- Mahalia Jackson

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
- Mahalia Jackson

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
- Mahalia Jackson

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
- Mahalia Jackson

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.
- Mahalia Jackson

Money just draws flies.
- Mahalia Jackson

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

God can make you anything you want to be,
but you have to put everything in his hands.
- Mahalia Jackson

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
- Mahalia Jackson

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit,
yelling for help.
- Mahalia Jackson

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
- Mahalia Jackson

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

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
- Mahalia Jackson

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good.
Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
- Mahalia Jackson

When you are through with the blues,
you've got nothing to rest on.
- Mahalia Jackson

Without a song, each day would be a century.
- Mahalia Jackson

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me.
Don't talk skin to me.
- Mahalia Jackson

The trouble with records is that they're too short.
- Mahalia Jackson

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
- Mahalia Jackson

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
- Mahalia Jackson

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter

Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher

This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous

The only faith that wears well and holds its color
in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction
and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
- James Russell Lowell

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
- Edwin Louis Cole

Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
- Miguel de Unamuno

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
- Michael Malone

A man of courage is also full of faith.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

To me faith means not worrying.
- John Dewey

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
- Thomas Aquinas

Faith is not contrary to reason.
- Sherwood Eddy

Knowledge is only one half.
Faith is the other.
- Novalis

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
- Pat Buckley

Faith is to believe what you do not see;
the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
- Saint Augustine

Only faith is sufficient.
- Robert Ley

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists,
but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
- Lillian Smith

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
- Plato

Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process,
a sort of mental starch.
- E. M. Forster

Faith is a passionate intuition.
- William Wordsworth

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell,
but not the contrary of what they see.
It is above them and not contrary to them.
- Blaise Pascal

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Khalil Gibran

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
- Norman Cousins

I have not lost faith in God.
I have moments of anger and protest.
Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
- Elie Wiesel

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings,
as my parents had not much faith in and were never
so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
- Orson Pratt

It takes vision and courage to create -
it takes faith and courage to prove.
- Owen D. Young

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie