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

"The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one."

— Reinhold Niebuhr —

"As gold is purified in the furnace, so the faithful heart is purified by sorrow."

— Guarini —

"We either add to the darkness of indifference ... or we light a candle to see by."

— Madeleine L'Engle —

"If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know....."

— Amy Carmichael —