Quotemeal for Sunday, September 4, 1955

"To be forged upon the anvil of God's purpose, to be at once His hammer, His tongs, and His molten iron; to hear words that rend the heart, see visions that pierce the chest; to be emptied like an urn, again and again and again until one desires only rest, only an end to the refilling — and to know one cannnot live without the refilling. To be given words that one dare not speak, and to feel those words churning and boiling in the belly until one must speak them aloud, or die. To be despised, soon or late, by everyone except Adonai — and to desire it so, while hating it. This is to be a prophet."

— Thom Lemmons

More Quotemeal

"Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being."

— G. K. Chesterton —

"The church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it."

— Jerome —

"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."

— Martin Luther —

"The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a....."

— C. S. Lewis —