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

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

There are many rooms in the House of Pain.

— Amy Carmichael

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

— Amy Carmichael

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

— Amy Carmichael

Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will…

— Amy Carmichael

I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

— Amy Carmichael

“One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving”

— Amy Carmichael

Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

— Amy Carmichael

We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

— Amy Carmichael

When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?

— Amy Carmichael

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

— Amy Carmichael

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

— Amy Carmichael

Amy wrote to a little shawlie: when I grow up and money have, i know what I will do, i'll build a…

— Amy Carmichael

I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear…

— Amy Carmichael

“Manliness is not mere courage, it is the quality of soul which frankly accepts all conditions in human life, and makes it…

— Amy Carmichael

Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that…

— Amy Carmichael

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else,…

— Amy Carmichael

“The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers till I my…

— Amy Carmichael

Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our…

— Amy Carmichael

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings…

— Amy Carmichael

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your…

— Amy Carmichael

If when I am able to discover something which has baffled others, I forget Him who revealeth the deep and secret things,…

— Amy Carmichael

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the…

— Amy Carmichael

Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And…

— Amy Carmichael

...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least…

— Amy Carmichael

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and…

— Amy Carmichael

When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it;…

— Amy Carmichael

And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never…

— 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

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…

— Amy Carmichael

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

— 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

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