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  1. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    She thought of herself as his strength; in a world of shadows, the indisputable reality to which he could always repair. And, again, for all that had come, she could not regret this. She had tried, but she had never been and was not now, even tonight, truly sorry. Where, then, was her repentance? And how could God hear her cry?"
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  2. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.
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  3. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So
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  4. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs. One
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  5. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    sin is the only heritage of the natural man
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  6. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    there was about his elders an ease in the holy place, and a levity, that made his soul uneasy.
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  7. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Out of joy strength came, strength that was fashioned to bear sorrow: sorrow brought forth joy. Forever? This was Ezekiel's wheel, in the middle of the burning air forever -- and the little wheel ran by faith, and the big wheel ran by the grace of God.
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  8. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    At length, she lay beside him like a burden laid down at evening which must be picked up once more in the morning.
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  9. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    I'm going to pray God," said John-and his voice shook, whether with joy or grief he could not say-"to keep me, and make me strong ... to stand ... to stand against the enemy ... and against everything and everybody ... that wants to cut down my soul.
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  10. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Then John knew that a curse was renewed from moment to moment, from father to son. Time was indifferent, like snow and ice; but the heart, crazed wanderer in the driving waste, carried the curse forever.
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  11. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    It was his hatred and his intelligence that he cherished, the one feeding the other.
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  12. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Yes, Mama. I'm going to try to love the Lord." At this there sprang into his mother's face something startling, beautiful, unspeakably sad-as though she were looking far beyond him at a long, dark road, and seeing on that road a traveler in perpetual danger. Was it he, the traveler? or herself? or was she thinking of the cross of Jesus?
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