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

"Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —

"God doesn't just give us grace, He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace."

— Joni Eareckson Tada —

"If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?"

— Blaise Pascal —

"Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconciously we judge others by the light that is within..."

— Laura Ingalls Wilder —