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

"The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and this is about the last thing we have in many of our churches."

— Dwight L. Moody —

"Love gives itself; it is not bought."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow —

"Funerals, divorces, illnesses, and stays in the hospital — you can't lie about life at such times. Maybe that's why he's always present at such moments."

— Max Lucado —