Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.' — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure. — Amy Carmichael Crucible Copy Share Image
“Praise Him who went before to search out a Resting-place. May it be a place of victory too, for His own glory's… — Amy Carmichael Glory Copy Share Image
“as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the… — Amy Carmichael God Copy Share Image
If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort… — Amy Carmichael Comfort Copy Share Image
“Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony so long as we only give of our superfluity… — Amy Carmichael Irony Copy Share Image
If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
Can we accept the unexplained, the loss, The crushing agony, and hold us still. And nowhere is that clearer vision given Which… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire… — Amy Carmichael Desire Copy Share Image
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that,… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch… — Amy Carmichael Adversity Copy Share Image
Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness… — Amy Carmichael Action Copy Share Image
If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion,… — Amy Carmichael Art Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. (If you want to know what someone truly loves, see what… — Amy Carmichael Giving Copy Share Image
If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on… — Amy Carmichael Benefit of the doubt Copy Share Image
There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes… — Amy Carmichael Fear Copy Share Image
“If I do not feel far more for the grieved Saviour than for my worried self when troublesome things occur, then I… — Amy Carmichael Love Copy Share Image
If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
Have you given your child unreservedly to the Lord for whatever He will? ...O may He strengthen you to say YES to… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church… — Amy Carmichael Christian Copy Share Image
It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know… — Amy Carmichael Calvary Copy Share Image
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