Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.Quote by Mahalia Jackson about origin, music
I am an authority on gospel, and they don't have nothing like me and no gospel song at Carnegie Hall.Quote by Mahalia Jackson about authority, nothing
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.Quote by Augustin de Hipona
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.Quote by Mahalia Jackson about despair, hope
CBS has just discovered gospel singing and maybe it's new to a lot of people in the North, but everyone in the South is familiar with it.Quote by Mahalia Jackson about nation, people
When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.Quote by Mahalia Jackson about bad
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.Quote by Papa John Paul II about question, man
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.Quote by Papa John Paul II about history, world, time
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.Quote by Papa John Paul II about politics, interest, problems