Well now, for instance, a cancer…Now, a cancer comes from a bruise, and it’s a—it’s a—it’s a growth too. So’s tumor, cataract and oh, we could spend hours on it, of what it is. Now, those…Let’s say cancer. Now, first it’s a teeny little cell, and it begins to develop cells. It doesn’t have any form. It just goes any ways, spreads out with legs and some wraps around, and some like rugose cancer and diff…Red cancer and Black cancer and Sarcomas cancer and different varieties of them, but they—they’re—they’re not any certain way, because they are a spirit, and spirit has no form. You say, “A cancer’s spirit?” “Yes sir.” I can prove to you that that is a life and the devil. Now, as old fashion, as it seems to be, but there’s not a sickness in the world but what’s caused by the devil. Sickness came from the devil. Sickness is a—is a direct or indirect result from sin, maybe not your sin, but something you inherited. Before we had any sin, we had no sickness. After sin came, then sickness was the attributes of sin.

Healing (What Cancer Is), 1953-09-04, Chicago, IL, §14