Top 90 Amy Carmichael Quotes
#2. When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#3. Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile.
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#4. 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?
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#5. Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.
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#6. The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done and rendered up account.
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#7. From all that dims Thy calvary O Lamb of God deliver me.
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#8. God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart ... with Himself.
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#9. 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.
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#10. If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#11. If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.
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#12. One can't save and then pitchfork souls into heaven ... Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies ... And as you can't get the souls out and deal with them separately, you have to take them both together.
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#13. We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours to win them.
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#14. If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#15. Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.
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#16. O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.
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#17. Have you given your child unreservedly to the Lord for whatever He will? ... O may He strengthen you to say YES to Him if He asks something which costs.
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#18. The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough.
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#19. There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.
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#20. If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#21. It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates
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#22. Bare heights of loneliness ... a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
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#23. Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'
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#24. If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#25. If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.
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#26. All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
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#27. If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.
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#31. So whether our message is welcomed or not, the fact remains we must go to all; and the worse they are and the harder they are, the more evident is it that, wanted or not, it is needed by them.
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#32. I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.
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#33. If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#34. If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.
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#35. He said "Love ... as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.
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#36. Continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there.
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#37. Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call prayer, or whether it be the action that follows, leads sooner or later to a new demand on personal devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ.
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#38. God forgive us! God arouse us! Shame us out of our callousness! Shame us out of our sin!
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#39. Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Manliness is not mere courage, it is the quality of soul which frankly accepts all conditions in human life, and makes it a point of honor not to be dismayed or wearied by them.
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#42. I wish thy way.
And when in me myself should rise,
and long for something otherwise,
Then Lord, take sword and spear
And slay.
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#43. It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.
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#44. When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?
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#45. God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
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#46. The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap
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#47. Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
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#48. It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.
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#49. Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings.
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#51. 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.
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#52. If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#53. What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.
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#54. Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?
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#55. 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.
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#56. If I do not feel far more for the grieved Saviour than for my worried self when troublesome things occur, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#57. Satan is so much more in earnest than we are
he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.
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#58. As the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.
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#59. Can we accept the unexplained, the loss,
The crushing agony, and hold us still.
And nowhere is that clearer vision given
Which pierces a bewildering providence,
And opens windows upon highest heaven,
But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.
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#60. If you would live in victory ... you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
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#61. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.
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#62. If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say "Just what I expected," if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
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#63. Praise Him who went before to search out a Resting-place. May it be a place of victory too, for His own glory's sake.
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#64. It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.
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#65. If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love
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#66. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony so long as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.
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#67. All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey ...
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#69. Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God
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#70. Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?
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#71. Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps ... one must be willing to be nothing, as something.
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#72. Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.
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#73. Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.
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#74. The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
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#75. Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
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#76. Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.
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#77. Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.
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#78. A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.
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#79. There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us
To will what God wills brings peace.
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#80. Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.
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#81. I think God wants to make me pure gold, so He is burning out the dross, teaching me the meaning of the fire, the burnt offering, the death of the self-part of me.
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#82. If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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#83. Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.
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#84. We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.
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#85. Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
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#88. One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving
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#89. He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
Thy heart be troubled,
Neither let it be afraid.
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#90. There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.
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