Quotemeal for Monday, September 4, 2023

"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

"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."

— Warren G. Harding —

"The heart of a child is the most precious of God's creation. Never break it. At all costs, never break it."

— Joseph L. Whitten —

"The greatest of all visions is to see Christ, indeed, to see God, in the frail and glorious human family of the world."

— MacRina Wiederkehr —

"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man..."

— Blaise Pascal —