Amy Carmichael Quotes

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 to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.

If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

There are many rooms in the House of Pain.

From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.

Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.

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

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 that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

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

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

One must as willingly be nothing, as something.

continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.

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 “field full of wheat and tares.

The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say--with every fresh need has come a fresh supply.

The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

God, harden me against myself!

You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.

The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts.

as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.

He hath never failed thee yet.Never will His love forget.O fret not thyself nor letThy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tireThe Passion that'll burn like fireLet me not sink to be a clodMake me Thy fuel, Flame of God