Amy Carmichael
"You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving."
26 Quotes
"If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord,For that a little emptier My house on earth, what rich rewards That guerdon were."
Amy Carmichael
"If we were less of what seems like ease in our lives they would tell more for Christ and souls... We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has."
Amy Carmichael
"It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood... So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth."
Amy Carmichael
"The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say--with every fresh need has come a fresh supply."
Amy Carmichael
"The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs."
Amy Carmichael
"Strength of my heart, I need not fail,Not mind to fear but to obey,With such a Leader, who could quail?Thou art as Thou wert yesterday. Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee,Fulfil Thy purposes through me."
Amy Carmichael
"Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost."
Amy Carmichael
"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." How often I think of that 'ought.' No sugary sentiment there. Just the stern, glorious trumpet call, OUGHT. But can words tell the joy buried deep within? Mine cannot. It laughs at words."
Amy Carmichael
"The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts."
Amy Carmichael
"to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close."
Amy Carmichael
"We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done."
Amy Carmichael
"Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate."
Amy Carmichael
"We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father?"
Amy Carmichael
"And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,Until it be according unto mine?But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine. I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing,I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire—See in my quiet places, wishes thronging—Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire."
Amy Carmichael
"There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful... We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength."
Amy Carmichael
"But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed."
Amy Carmichael
"We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has."
Amy Carmichael
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