"How can you sing of amazing grace and all God’s wonders without using your hands?" ― Mahalia Jackson Topic(s): Faith More From Mahalia Jackson "Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope." "You’re blessed if you have the strength to work." "They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills." More In Faith "We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."― George Eliot "In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."― Benjamin Franklin "I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers."― Dorothy Day