Go Tell It on the Mountain quotes about faith & the church

For the moment of salvation is a blinding light, cracking down into the heart from Heaven—Heaven so high, and the sinner so low.

For the rebirth of the soul was perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan.

Even a Reverend’s got the right to take off his clothes sometimes and act like a natural man.

I was down in the valley, I was by myself down there. I won’t never forget. May God forget me if I forget.

I guess it takes a holy man to make a girl a real whore.

Listen. God is talking.

When we cease to tremble before Him we have turned out of the way.

Broadway: the way that led to death was broad, and many could be found thereon; but narrow was the way that led to life eternal, and few there were who found it.

She had fallen from that high estate which God had intended for men and women, and she made her fall glorious because it was so complete.

The Lord was riding on the wind to-night. What might that wind have spoken before the morning came?

These, God’s ministers, had indeed grown fat, and their dress was rich and various. They had been in the field so long that they did not tremble before God any more.

And something moved in John’s body which was not John. He was invaded, set at naught, possessed.

The darkness and silence of the church pressed on him, cold as judgment, and the voices crying from the window might have been crying from another world.