"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope." ― Mahalia Jackson Topic(s): Faith More From Mahalia Jackson "They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills." "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." "You’re blessed if you have the strength to work." More In Faith "President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It’s about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who’s next?"― Michelle Malkin "The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I’m Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I’m running for president of the United States."― Mitt Romney "Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."― C. S. Lewis