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

"There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things and the end of things."

— Welsh Proverb —

"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially formed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."

— C. S. Lewis —

"Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us."

— Oswald Chambers —

"If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and...."

— Keith Green —