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

"Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them."

— Robert G. Ingersoll —

"The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return."

— Sundar Singh —

"What is the Church if not the assembly of all the saints?"

— Nicetas —

"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also,...."

— Frederick Buechner —