Go Tell It on the Mountain

faith-and-doubt

• He felt that this silence was God's judgment; all creation stilled before the just and awful wrath of God—'Oh, Lord, have mercy on me!'

  GTIM-RC-077

• 'I'm saved,' he said, 'and I know I'm saved.' And then he repeated his father's text: 'My witness is in Heaven and my record is on high.'

  GTIM-RC-172

shame

• In the school lavatory he had watched in himself a transformation of which he would never dare to speak—the darkness of John's sin like the darkness of the church.

  GTIM-RC-010

• Oh, that his father would die!—Hell, everlasting, unceasing, perpetual, should be his father's portion; with John there to watch and laugh aloud.

  GTIM-RC-122

trauma-and-survival

• He had been beaten; his body bore strange painful swellings. He had not robbed the store, but had gone down into the underground.

  GTIM-RC-143

• Being forced to choose between Richard and God, she could only, even with weeping, have turned away from God—and this was why God had taken him from her.

  GTIM-RC-132