Amy Carmichael Quotes

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• If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought,…
• 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…
• If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of…
• Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for…
• 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…
• It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born.…
• If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
• If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know…
• The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
• Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call…
• Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.
• When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.
• If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril…
• One can't save and then pitchfork souls into heaven... Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies... And as you can't get the souls…
• If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account;…
• If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the…
• Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.
• Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.
• I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.
• If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love…

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