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

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.||"

— Abraham Lincoln —

"Some read the Bible to learn and some read the Bible to hear from heaven."

— Andrew Murray —

"The world does not need more Christian writers — it needs more good writers and composers who are Christians."

— C. S. Lewis —

"God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking...."

— A. W. Tozer —