Quotes from Amy Carmichael
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
- Amy Carmichael
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
- Amy Carmichael
Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.
- Amy Carmichael
Missionary life is simply a chance to die.
- Amy Carmichael
All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
- Amy Carmichael
He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.
- Amy Carmichael
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning "with" and "strong" — He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.
- Amy Carmichael
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.
- Amy Carmichael
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 fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
- Amy Carmichael
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 or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
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 from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
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 nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael