Quotemeal for Tuesday, September 4, 2007

"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

"If Christians had ever been brave enough to make Christ alive, nobody would now be saying that Christianity is dead."

— Winifred Kirkland —

"If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good."

— Struthers Burt —

"I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light."

— Mary Gardiner Brainard —

"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."

— John Stott —