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

"Men love to be encouraged by false hopes; the world is full of quack remedies for sin."

— J. Gresham Machen —

"Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs."

— Jean Paul Richter —

"I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God."

— Henri Nouwen —

"Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes..."

— John Owen —