Quotes from Marvin Sapp

The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

Success is difficult to define.

I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.

Sometimes I still wonder what my fans look like, but if I had to describe them, I'd say that they are everyday people with everyday needs who need a supernatural message to help them though their natural walk.

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically how could I not?

Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.

I just believe that whatever I post should be my content.

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down.

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.

One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.

I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.

We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.