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
crush loss omnipotence
Can we accept the unexplained, the loss, The crushing agony, and hold us still. And nowhere is that clearer vision given Which pierces a bewildering providence, And opens windows upon highest heaven, But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.
cannot cute-love love sweet-love
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
victory god-love constant
O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.
God, harden me against myself!
lambs calvary lamb-of-god
From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.
christian inspiration responsible
The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.
feet littles delight
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.
crucible gold faces
When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.
pain heart night
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken.
christian japan church
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.
soul understanding may
There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own soul, something that would do what only the Divine can do. “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.
christian inspiration asking
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.
christian inspiration feelings
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
disappointment passion fire
Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God