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

"Jesus Christ is a peacemaker. So, if we want to be God's children and Christ's disciples, we must be peacemakers too."

— John R. W. Stott —

"The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!""

— Francis of Sales —

"God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

"If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables,....."

— Madame Jeanne Guyon —