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

"It's hard for God to walk with a man who gets his mind made up to do things his own way."

— Norvel Hayes —

"God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a "No Fishing" sign over the spot."

— Dwight L. Moody —

"Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique."

— Martin Buber —

"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles..."

— Henry Ward Beecher —