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

"Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God."

— Max Lucado —

"Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."

— Albert Schweitzer —

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

— Mary Gardiner Brainard —

"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end;...."

— George A. Buttrick —