Now, how them old days, they really tantalize us. And there’s many things happened that I wouldn’t have time to tell you, along the road. But you know how it is in old school days. Wouldn’t you like to go back there again? My, go back to just… I wished I could live one day again. I wished I could get by that old table that my daddy built on top of a stump. And I—I would like to go back there, and set down there, and just live one more day. I’d give all, if I had a hundred million dollars laying on this platform. God knows my heart. And I realize that night after night, I wrestle with demon powers, and I’m not immune from them. They can come to me. Remember one time, some boys who thought they had a gift of healing? Said to a man who had epilepsy, “I adjure thee by Jesus Who Paul preaches, come out of it.” The devil said, “Paul I know, and Jesus I know, but who are you?” Is that right? You have to watch what you’re doing now. Be sure that you’re called for these things. And the men was jumped on, stripped the clothes off, and run through the streets naked.

Life Story, 1951-04-15, Phoenix, AZ, §37