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

"You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be, and do in the tomorrows of your life."

— Author Unknown —

"When led by the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak."

— Lewis Sperry Chafer —

"Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue."

— St. John Chrysostom —

"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself..."

— Matthew Henry —