Quotemeal for Friday, September 4, 1959

"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

"Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship."

— Douglas Horton —

"We are Christians and strangers on this earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not this world."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"All effective fathers learn the importance of a wise and flexible response to their children's calls for attention. No busy signals here. No "hold" button."

— Gordon McDonald —

"The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though....."

— S. T. Coleridge —