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Know Nothing Quotes by Amy Carmichael
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it…
- If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure…
- If I am inconsiderate about the comfort of others, or their feelings, or even of their little weaknesses; if I am careless about their little…
- If when I am able to discover something which has baffled others, I forget Him who revealeth the deep and secret things, and knoweth what…
- If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the…
- If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,†if a…
- If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because…
- If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like…
- If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be…
More Know Nothing Quotes
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C.S. Lewis
- If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think… — Amy Carmichael
- If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that… — Harri Holkeri
- One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know… — John M. Tyler
- In baseball, you don't know nothing. — Yogi Berra
- Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be… — Joan of Arc
- Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right… — Yogaswami
- A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose… — Jonathan Swift