Quotemeal for Wednesday, September 4, 2019

"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

"There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less."

— Philip Yancey —

"Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within."

— Jim Elliot —

"Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians."

— John Tillotson —

"'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light..."

— John Selden —