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

"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.||"

— C. S. Lewis —

"If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example."

— Thomas à Kempis —

"Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there...."

— John Irving —