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

"Salvation is free, ... but discipleship will cost you your life."

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —

"Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see the perfect church."

— J. C. Ryle —

"The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm."

— Matt Chandler —

"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 —