Favorite Quotes from Amy Carmichael
Amy Carmichael was born in Ireland on December 16, 1867. Passionate about God and bold in her love to serve others, she became a missionary to India at the age of 28, opening an orphanage and establishing a mission in Dohnavur where she lived the rest of her life. For the last 20 years of her time there, she was mostly confined to her bed due to injuries suffered in a bad fall. She continued to write, and serve, and died in Dohnavur on January 18, 1951 aged 83. She is buried there and the children marked her grave with a birdbath engraved "Amma" which means mother.
God delights to meet the faith of one who looks up to Him and says, “Lord, You know that I cannot do this--but I believe that you can!" -Amy Carmichael
So wait before the Lord; Wait in the stillness. And in that stillness, assurance will come to you. You will know that you are heard; you will know that your Lord ponders the voice of your humble desires; you will hear quiet words spoken to you yourself, perhaps to your grateful surprise and refreshment. -Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
To accept the will of God never leads to the miserable feeling that it is useless to strive any more. God does not ask for the dull, weak, sleepy acquiescence of indolence. He asks for something vivid and strong. He asks for us to cooperate with Him, actively willing what He wills, our only aim His glory. -Amy Carmichael
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Amy Carmichael
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.
- Amy Carmichael
It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates. - 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
He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much. - Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace. -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
Strength of my heart, I need not fail,
Not mine 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,
Fulfill Thy purposes through me.
-Amy Carmichael
Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work. - 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
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
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love. - Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey. -Amy Carmichael
I wish Thy way.
And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise,
Then Lord, take sword and spear
And slay.
- Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
God, hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
-Amy Carmichael
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 "successful.” -Amy Carmichael
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate. -Amy Carmichael
Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar? - Amy Carmichael
A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.
-Amy Carmichael
Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow,
Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea,
What matters beating wind and tossing billow
If only we are in the boat with Thee?
Hold us quiet through the age-long minute
While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill:
Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it;
Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will.
-Amy Carmichael
There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life with God). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength. -Amy Carmichael
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. - Amy Carmichael
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.
-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
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
O Thou, who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill,
Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still.
Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes, Confusions multiplied;
From crowding things of sense I flee, and in Thee I hide.
Until this tyranny be over past, Thy hand will hold me fast;
What though the tumult of the storm increase,
Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord,
and bless with peace.
-Amy Carmichael
A voice said, "Climb."
And he said, "How shall I climb? The mountains are so steep that I cannot climb."
The voice said, "Climb or die."
He said, "But how? I see no way up those steep ascents. This that is asked, is too hard for me."
The voice said, "Climb, or perish, soul and body of thee, mind and spirit of thee. There is no second chance for any son of man. Climb or die."
Then he remembered that he had read in the books of the bravest climbers on the hills of the earth that sometimes they were aware of the presence of a Companion on the mountains who was not one of the earthly party of climbers. And he remembered a word in the Book of Mountaineers...it heartened him, for it told him that he was created to walk in precarious places, not on the easy levels of life. -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
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. -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
I would rather burn out than rust out. -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
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. -Amy Carmichael
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear. -Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
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. -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
The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvelous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts. -Amy Carmichael
He said “Love…as I have loved you.” We cannot love too much. - Amy Carmichael
Sometimes in Dohnavur we, who dearly love the little children about us (and the older ones too), have looked up from some engrossing work to see a child beside us, waiting quietly. And when, with a welcoming hand held out, to the Tamil "I have come," we have asked "For what?" thinking, perhaps, of something to be confessed, or wanted, the answer has come back, "Just to love you." So do we come, Lord Jesus; we have no service to offer now; we do not come to ask for anything not even for guidance. We come just to love Thee. - Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
But if one is truly called of God, all the difficulties and discouragements only intensify the Call. If things were easier there would be less need. The greater the need, the clearer the Call rings through one, the deeper the conviction grows: it was God's Call. And as one obeys it, there is the joy of obedience, quite apart from the joy of success. There is joy in being with Jesus in a place where His friends are few; and sometimes, when one would least expect it, coming home tired out and disheartened after a day in an opposing or indifferent town, suddenly, how you can hardly tell, such a wave of the joy of Jesus flows over you and through you that you are stilled with the sense of utter joy. Then, when you see Him winning souls, or hear of your comrades victories, oh, all that is within you sings, I have more than an overweight of joy. - Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own soul, something that would do what only the Divine can do. “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. -Amy Carmichael
Deep unto deep, O Lord, crieth in me,
Gathering strength I come, Lord, unto Thee.
Jesus of Calvary,
Smitten for me,
Ask what Thou wilt, but give Love to me.
-Amy Carmichael
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. -Amy Carmichael
You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving. -Amy Carmichael
Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence, acceptance, and rest in God’s will, whatever comes. -Amy Carmichael
It is not far to go, For Thou art near;
It is not far to go,For Thou art here;
And not by traveling, Lord,
Men come to Thee,
But by the way of love;
And we love Thee.
-Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, “Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.” -Amy Carmichael
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into he unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you! -Amy Carmichael
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken.
-Amy Carmichael
Let us end on a very simple note: Let us listen to simple words; our Lord speaks simply: “Trust Me, My child,” He says. “Trust Me with a humbler heart and a fuller abandon to My will than ever thou didst before. Trust Me to pour My love through thee, as minute succeeds minute. And if thou shouldst be conscious of anything hindering that flow, do not hurt My love by going away from Me in discouragement, for nothing can hurt so much as that. Draw all the closer to Me; come, flee unto Me to hide thee, even from thyself. Tell Me about the trouble. Trust Me to turn My hand upon thee and thoroughly to remove the boulder that has choked they river-bed, and take away all the sand that has silted up the channel. I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. I will perfect that which concerneth thee. Fear thou not, O child of My love; fear not." -Amy Carmichael
God delights to meet the faith of one who looks up to Him and says, “Lord, You know that I cannot do this--but I believe that you can!" -Amy Carmichael
So wait before the Lord; Wait in the stillness. And in that stillness, assurance will come to you. You will know that you are heard; you will know that your Lord ponders the voice of your humble desires; you will hear quiet words spoken to you yourself, perhaps to your grateful surprise and refreshment. -Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
To accept the will of God never leads to the miserable feeling that it is useless to strive any more. God does not ask for the dull, weak, sleepy acquiescence of indolence. He asks for something vivid and strong. He asks for us to cooperate with Him, actively willing what He wills, our only aim His glory. -Amy Carmichael
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Amy Carmichael
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.
- Amy Carmichael
It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates. - 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
He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much. - Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace. -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
Strength of my heart, I need not fail,
Not mine 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,
Fulfill Thy purposes through me.
-Amy Carmichael
Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work. - 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
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
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love. - Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey. -Amy Carmichael
I wish Thy way.
And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise,
Then Lord, take sword and spear
And slay.
- Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
God, hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
-Amy Carmichael
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 "successful.” -Amy Carmichael
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate. -Amy Carmichael
Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar? - Amy Carmichael
A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.
-Amy Carmichael
Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow,
Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea,
What matters beating wind and tossing billow
If only we are in the boat with Thee?
Hold us quiet through the age-long minute
While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill:
Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it;
Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will.
-Amy Carmichael
There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life with God). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength. -Amy Carmichael
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. - Amy Carmichael
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.
-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
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
O Thou, who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill,
Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still.
Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes, Confusions multiplied;
From crowding things of sense I flee, and in Thee I hide.
Until this tyranny be over past, Thy hand will hold me fast;
What though the tumult of the storm increase,
Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord,
and bless with peace.
-Amy Carmichael
A voice said, "Climb."
And he said, "How shall I climb? The mountains are so steep that I cannot climb."
The voice said, "Climb or die."
He said, "But how? I see no way up those steep ascents. This that is asked, is too hard for me."
The voice said, "Climb, or perish, soul and body of thee, mind and spirit of thee. There is no second chance for any son of man. Climb or die."
Then he remembered that he had read in the books of the bravest climbers on the hills of the earth that sometimes they were aware of the presence of a Companion on the mountains who was not one of the earthly party of climbers. And he remembered a word in the Book of Mountaineers...it heartened him, for it told him that he was created to walk in precarious places, not on the easy levels of life. -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
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. -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
I would rather burn out than rust out. -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
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. -Amy Carmichael
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear. -Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
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. -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
The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvelous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts. -Amy Carmichael
He said “Love…as I have loved you.” We cannot love too much. - Amy Carmichael
Sometimes in Dohnavur we, who dearly love the little children about us (and the older ones too), have looked up from some engrossing work to see a child beside us, waiting quietly. And when, with a welcoming hand held out, to the Tamil "I have come," we have asked "For what?" thinking, perhaps, of something to be confessed, or wanted, the answer has come back, "Just to love you." So do we come, Lord Jesus; we have no service to offer now; we do not come to ask for anything not even for guidance. We come just to love Thee. - Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
But if one is truly called of God, all the difficulties and discouragements only intensify the Call. If things were easier there would be less need. The greater the need, the clearer the Call rings through one, the deeper the conviction grows: it was God's Call. And as one obeys it, there is the joy of obedience, quite apart from the joy of success. There is joy in being with Jesus in a place where His friends are few; and sometimes, when one would least expect it, coming home tired out and disheartened after a day in an opposing or indifferent town, suddenly, how you can hardly tell, such a wave of the joy of Jesus flows over you and through you that you are stilled with the sense of utter joy. Then, when you see Him winning souls, or hear of your comrades victories, oh, all that is within you sings, I have more than an overweight of joy. - Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own soul, something that would do what only the Divine can do. “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. -Amy Carmichael
Deep unto deep, O Lord, crieth in me,
Gathering strength I come, Lord, unto Thee.
Jesus of Calvary,
Smitten for me,
Ask what Thou wilt, but give Love to me.
-Amy Carmichael
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. -Amy Carmichael
You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving. -Amy Carmichael
Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence, acceptance, and rest in God’s will, whatever comes. -Amy Carmichael
It is not far to go, For Thou art near;
It is not far to go,For Thou art here;
And not by traveling, Lord,
Men come to Thee,
But by the way of love;
And we love Thee.
-Amy Carmichael
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. -Amy Carmichael
All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, “Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.” -Amy Carmichael
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into he unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you! -Amy Carmichael
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken.
-Amy Carmichael
Let us end on a very simple note: Let us listen to simple words; our Lord speaks simply: “Trust Me, My child,” He says. “Trust Me with a humbler heart and a fuller abandon to My will than ever thou didst before. Trust Me to pour My love through thee, as minute succeeds minute. And if thou shouldst be conscious of anything hindering that flow, do not hurt My love by going away from Me in discouragement, for nothing can hurt so much as that. Draw all the closer to Me; come, flee unto Me to hide thee, even from thyself. Tell Me about the trouble. Trust Me to turn My hand upon thee and thoroughly to remove the boulder that has choked they river-bed, and take away all the sand that has silted up the channel. I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. I will perfect that which concerneth thee. Fear thou not, O child of My love; fear not." -Amy Carmichael