Go Tell It on the Mountain quotes about love

Love is as strong as death, as deep as the grave.

I wish to God I may die if I don’t love you. There ain’t no sky above us if I don’t love you.

Perhaps she had lost her love because she had not, in the end, believed in it enough.

She knew that the kind of imprisonment that love might impose was also, mysteriously, a freedom for the soul and spirit, was water in the dry place, and had nothing to do with the prisons, churches, laws, rewards, and punishments, that so positively cluttered the landscape of her aunt’s mind.

For his drifting soul was anchored in the love of God; in the rock that endured for ever. The light and the darkness had kissed each other, and were married now, for ever, in the life and the vision of John’s soul.

Ain’t nothing but the love of God can make the darkness light.

She was descending with Richard to the sea. She would have to climb back up alone, but she did not know this then.

Your Daddy beats you, she said, because he loves you.

Ten years. Their battle never ended; they never bought a home. He died in France.