Doe Quote by Amy Carmichael

“Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'”

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

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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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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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