I said, “I’m in position to stay here. If that woman isn’t walking of the street well in three days, I’ll put a sign on my back as false prophet, and you just run me around over town in front of your car. And then if she isn’t, I’ll do that. And if she is, let me put one on your back and go.” The doctor was converted, preaching the Gospel today. One of the best surgeons on the West Coast, people even flew from New York to be operated by him. And they sent me a—a million, five hundred thousands in a bank draft; two agents brought it, me living in a two room shanty at the time. But it isn’t money what makes happiness, it… Happiness doesn’t consist of how much of the world’s goods you own, but how contented you are with the portion that has been lotted to you. Just make yourself contented as long as one thing that brings contentment, and that alone, is Jesus Christ.

Life Story, 1953-11-08, Owensboro, KY, §11