Amy Carmichael
Amy Carmichael
Amy Wilson Carmichaelwas a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for 55 years without furlough and wrote many books about the missionary work there...
Amy Carmichael quotes about
writing lasts doe
Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.
christian war inspiration
It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.
love trying asking
Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.
inspiration thinking laughing
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." How often I think of that 'ought.' No sugary sentiment there. Just the stern, glorious trumpet call, OUGHT. But can words tell the joy buried deep within? Mine cannot. It laughs at words.
stars men two
There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'
long wish way
I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear And slay.
prayer heart choices
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 my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
fighting looks details
Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.
christian running sweet
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 hurts and miss opportunities to smooth their way; if I make the sweet running of household wheels more difficult to accomplish, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
doe deliverance wave
But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
scar savior wounds
Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?
faith heart leisure
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.
forgiveness half lapses
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.
missionary chance life-is
Missionary life is simply a chance to die.