Amy Carmichael Quotes

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• If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my…
• When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden…
• 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,…
• 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…
• We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.
• God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.
• If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.
• If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.
• Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding…
• Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.
• 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…
• 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…
• Missionary life is simply a chance to die.
• If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
• O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.
• 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…
• There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other…
• Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.
• If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of…
• Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.

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