Quotes from Amy Carmichael

Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings.

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God's will, whatever comes.

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.

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

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

Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.

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

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

God, harden me against myself!

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

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

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

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.

He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Calvary love.