And as the—David said, “When the deep is calling to the deep…” If there’s a call in my heart calling for a deep, calling in here, there’s got to be a deep to respond to it, isn’t there? In other words, as many times have I said, “Before there was a fin on a fish’s back, there had to be a water, first, for him to use that fin, or he wouldn’t have had no fin.” And if there’s a—’fore there’s a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first, or there’d be no tree to grow in the earth.

Whatever He Says to You, Do It, 1953-06-01, Connersville, IN, §7