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

"Our Father dwells in tents as well as in temples, but His favorite abiding-place is in the hearts of mankind."

— J. Fred Jones —

"Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions."

— Peter Damian —

"Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing."

— John of the Cross —

"Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on week days God has little or no place in his..."

— D.L. Moody —