Acceptance Quote by Amy Carmichael

“Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.”

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You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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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.…

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When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

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

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It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and…

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“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…

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