Amy Carmichael Quotes
“When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?“
“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
“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.”
“If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.”
“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.”
“It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates”
“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.”
“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”
While she’s inside the Belfast tea shop, outside she saw a small girl, barefoot and hardly clad, shivered in the cold rain. Then she whispered, “When I grow up and money have, I know what I will do, I’ll build a great big lovely place, For little girls like you.”
“Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?”
“O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.”
“From all that dims Thy Calvary,
O Lamb of God, deliver me.”
“Pray that we may enter into that travail of soul with Him. Nothing less is any good. Spiritual children mean travail of soul-spiritual agony.”
“Satan is so much more in earnest than we are — he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”
“The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.”
If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
If I do not give a friend “The benefit of the doubt,” but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
