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Amy Carmichael Quotes | Quotes said by Amy Carmichael

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #1

    A voice said, Climb. And he said, How shall I climb?the mountains are so steep that I cannot climb.
    The voice said, Climb or die.
    He said, But how?I see no way up those steep ascents. This that is asked is too hard for me.
    The voice said, Climb, or perish, soul and body of theemind and spirit of thee. There is no second chance for any son of man. Climb or die.
    Then he remembered that he had read in the books of the bravest climbers on the hills of the earth that sometimes they were aware of the presence of a Companion on the mountains who was not one of the earthly party of climbers.

    And he rememberd a word in the Book of Mountaineers...it heartened him,for it told him that he was created to walk in precarious places, not on the easy levels of life.


  • Amy Carmichael Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

    And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,
    Until it be according unto mine?
    But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather
    I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.

    I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing,
    I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire—
    See in my quiet places, wishes thronging—
    Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #4

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #5

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #6

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #7

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

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #8

    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

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #9

    God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #10

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #11

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #12

    I would rather burn out than rust out.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #13

    If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #14

    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 Quote #15

    If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #16

    If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself if I love to be loved more than to love...then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #17

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

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #18

    If we were less of what seems like ease in our lives they would tell more for Christ and souls...We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #19

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #20

    O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose,
    My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill,
    Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still.
    Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes,
    Confusions multiplied;
    From crowding things of sense I flee, and Thee I hide.
    Until this tyranny be overpast,
    Thy hand will hold me fast;
    What though the tumult of the storm increase,
    Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #21

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

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #22

    One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He was sitting beside his little charcoal fire. (He shall sit as a refiner; the gold- or silversmith never leaves his crucible once it is on the fire.) In the red glow lay a common curved roof tile; another tile covered it like a lid. This was the crucible. In it was the medicine made of salt, tamarind fruit and burnt brick dust, and imbedded in it was the gold. The medicine does its appointed work on the gold, then the fire eats it, and the goldsmith lifts the gold out with a pair of tongs, lets it cool, rubs it between his fingers, and if not satisfied puts it back again in fresh medicine. This time he blows the fire hotter than it was before, and each time he puts the gold into the crucible, the heat of the fire is increased; it could not bear it so hot at first, but it can bear it now; what would have destroyed it then helps it now. How do you know when the gold is purified? we asked him, and he answered, When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #23

    Strength of my heart, I need not fail,
    Not mind to fear but to obey,
    With such a Leader, who could quail?
    Thou art as Thou wert yesterday.
    Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee,
    Fulfil Thy purposes through me.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #24

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #25

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #26

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

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #27

    The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done and rendered up account.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #28

    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.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #29

    To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.

  • Amy Carmichael Quote #30

    to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close.

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