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 JacksonRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True independence is tested in times of hardship, not wealth.
This quote by Mahalia Jackson emphasizes that genuine independence and strength of character are revealed not in moments of financial stability, but rather in times of struggle and deprivation. It suggests that real tests of one's resilience and autonomy come when faced with challenges, and that such trials are a spiritual examination of one's inner fortitude.
Themes
IndependenceHardshipResilienceCharacterTest
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote in a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
More from Mahalia Jackson
All quotes βThe old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
Mahalia JacksonRead
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
Mahalia JacksonRead
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia JacksonRead
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia JacksonRead
When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
Mahalia JacksonRead
Similar quotes
Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
Abraham LincolnRead
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
Wayne DyerRead
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel ProustRead
Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women's particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.
Victoria Coren MitchellRead
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
Clay ShirkyRead
It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
Charles SpurgeonRead