A minister taking me not long ago aside and said, "Brother Branham, do you know why your ministry is not the greatest ministry in America today?" And I said, "I don't care what it is in America; I want to know what it is on the books of Heaven, what it is there." He said, "Well, I'll tell you. It's because that you rebuke the people in such a way." Said, "You bawl them out, and it hurts them. If you'd just stop doing that, then," he said, "your ministry would grow and so forth."
I said, "Sir, let me tell you something. When it comes to a place that I have to compromise on the Word of God, then I'll stop and leave the field and let God call somebody else to do it." How can you hold your peace? If you go to be honest, be honest. I said, "You called me a prophet, I don't call it. You said yourself that. You was the one that said it. And then if the Lord anoints me for something, how could I hold my peace then? How can you do it? Somebody's got to cry out against it"