Now, you couldn’t have poured enough oil on her, anointed her with oil. You couldn’t have stomped, or hollered, or…devil don’t care how loud you holler. He don’t pay no attention to that. That’s right, but he will recognize faith. Yes, sir. He will have to know where truth lays, and he will recognize truth, and he will recognize faith. And—and if you have got something…That’s the reason I watch close. Now, on these lines like we’re going to have tonight, we just pray for the people, and lay hands on them and so forth. That’s the way that…That’s going to be up to you. So you confess your sins before you come to the platform and say, “Lord,” and anything’s in your life, you straighten it up now before you come. For be it assured to you that that thing will hang right over you as long as you got unconfessed sin.

Faith without Works Is Dead, 1953-09-05, Chicago, IL, §25