Mr Carmichael Quotes

#1. Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago.

Virginia Woolf

#2. 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

#3. Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

Amy Carmichael

#4. 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.

Amy Carmichael

#5. She's definitely a romance writer. I've primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would be a miracle if she didn't become a romance writer.

Samantha Young

#6. To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

Jerrod Carmichael

#7. From all that dims Thy calvary O Lamb of God deliver me.

Amy Carmichael

#8. God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart ... with Himself.

Amy Carmichael

#9. Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

Stokely Carmichael

#10. In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

Laura Carmichael

#11. It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.

Ariel Levy

#12. 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.

Amy Carmichael

#13. I love you, Taylor Carmichael Corretti. I love you for better and for worse - preferably worse, by the way." His eyes glittered into hers. "I love a bad girl. Think about it - if I marry you we can spend the rest of our lives shocking people.

Sarah Morgan

#14. [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.

Elisabeth Elliot

#15. You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Amy Jo Cousins

#16. If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.

Amy Carmichael

#17. He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

Virginia Woolf

#18. Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

Stokely Carmichael

#19. I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.

Laura Carmichael

#20. The assholes took their toll." "Assholes often do." "That's a Billboard Top Forty song waiting to happen." "Sung to the tune of 'There'll Be Sad Songs,'" I suggested, then offered up a lyric. "'There'll be assholes, to make you cry.'" "'Assholes often dooo,'" Mallory sang.

Chloe Neill

#21. No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character.

Laura Carmichael

#22. What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

Stokely Carmichael

#23. Now you know where I got my name.

Stokely Carmichael

#24. 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

#25. It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

Franklin Carmichael

#26. Performing for Dick Van Dyke once was fun.

Jerrod Carmichael

#27. 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.

Amy Carmichael

#28. You will be Mrs. Ezra Carmichael until you leave this earth. I wouldn't have it any other way,

Love Belvin

#29. Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Stokely Carmichael

#30. Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is an advertising medium.

Jerrod Carmichael

#31. No man can given anybody his freedom.

Stokely Carmichael

#32. 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.

Amy Carmichael

#33. One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Stokely Carmichael

#34. Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

Amy Carmichael