And I thought of Elijah, who went out there and set by the brook Cherith, and was fed by the ravens. And he closed the heavens that it wouldn’t rain. Then he opened up the heavens and brought down water, brought fire out of heaven the same day, and then when the inspiration left him (by the threat of a woman), run out into the wilderness and prayed for God to let him die. Is that right? Now, I could go on and on, but what is it, friends? Men who are—are brought under such tremendous inspiration of another land…You go out of this world, somewhere else, way up. And then when you’re—when you’re up there it’s all right. Or when you’re down, it’s all right. But when you come in between there…Now, as long as the inspiration was on them, they were all right. But when the inspiration leaves, that what hurts.

Believest Thou This?, 1951-05-06, Los Angeles, CA, §11