Amy Carmichael

There are many rooms in the House of Pain.

— Amy Carmichael

Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.

— Amy Carmichael

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

— Amy Carmichael

From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.

— Amy Carmichael

God, harden me against myself!

— Amy Carmichael

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

— Amy Carmichael

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

— Amy Carmichael

Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?

— Amy Carmichael

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

— Amy Carmichael

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

— Amy Carmichael

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

— Amy Carmichael

If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.

— Amy Carmichael

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

— Amy Carmichael

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.

— Amy Carmichael

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

— Amy Carmichael

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse ...

— Amy Carmichael

Can we accept the unexplained, the loss, The crushing agony, and hold us still. And nowhere is that clearer vision given Which…

— Amy Carmichael

If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands…

— Amy Carmichael

It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something…

— Amy Carmichael

If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I…

— Amy Carmichael

“I think God wants to make me pure gold, so He is burning out the dross, teaching me the meaning of the…

— Amy Carmichael

He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither…

— Amy Carmichael

Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon…

— Amy Carmichael

“Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony so long as we only give of our superfluity…

— Amy Carmichael

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our…

— Amy Carmichael

Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind…

— Amy Carmichael

Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every…

— Amy Carmichael

If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think…

— Amy Carmichael

In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this:…

— Amy Carmichael

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing…

— Amy Carmichael

What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose…

— Amy Carmichael

Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You…

— Amy Carmichael

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all…

— Amy Carmichael

“One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He was sitting…

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But all the great staining temptations, to selfishness, ambition, and other strong sins that violently affront the soul, appear first in the…

— Amy Carmichael

We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains.…

— 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,…

— Amy Carmichael

All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been…

— Amy Carmichael

“Sometimes in Dohnavur we, who dearly love the little children about us (and the older ones too), have looked up from some…

— Amy Carmichael

Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I…

— Amy Carmichael