There he is now, backslid, stormy sea, hands tied behind him, belly of a whale. Every time that fish eats it goes to the bottom of the sea and or the…A goldfish, when you feed him, he’ll go down and throw his little swimmers out and rest at the bottom of the water, the bowl. He’s found his prey and fed and went down to rest. The whale probably after he got a bellyful of backslidden preacher went down to the bottom of the sea, throwed his wings out like that, or his fins, and he was going to rest awhile. Here this Jonah was down there, seaweeds wrapped around his neck. Oh, talk about symptoms, he had a right to have them. If he looked this way, it was whale’s belly. If he looked that way, it was whale’s belly. Everywhere he looked was whale’s belly. My, you’re not even in that bad of shape tonight, no matter where you’re at tonight. Look around everywhere, whale’s belly, he had plenty of symptoms, didn’t he? More than you got; but you know what he said, “They are lying vanities.” He said, “Lord, once more will I look to Your holy temple. Now, I ain’t going to look at the symptoms. I ain’t going to look at how deep I am in the sea. I’m not going to look to my backsliding. I’m not going to look at these seaweeds around my neck. I’m not going to look at the whale’s belly, but I’m going to look beyond that to Your holy temple.” Amen. There you are.

Expectations, 1951-05-07, Los Angeles, CA, §41