Amy Carmichael
Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.Collection: Inspirational
It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.Collection: Impossible
When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?Collection: Sacrifice
Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?Collection: Three
We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.Collection: Inspiration
Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.Collection: Imagine
Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.Collection: Spiritual
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.Collection: Depressing
All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey.Collection: Remember
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.Collection: Acceptance
If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.Collection: Victory
Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.Collection: Christian
Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.Collection: Grace
Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile.Collection: Spiritual
It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.Collection: 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 GodCollection: Disappointment
If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.Collection: Hurt
I would rather burn out than rust out.Collection: Rust
A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.Collection: Water
Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.Collection: Thinking
Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.Collection: Spiritual
He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much.Collection: Christian
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.Collection: Missionary
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.Collection: Sweet
I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.Collection: Song
If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.Collection: Strong
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.Collection: Stupid
Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Cold
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.Collection: Faith
The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrapCollection: Silly
What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.Collection: Spiritual
Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?Collection: Christian
If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.Collection: Peace
There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.Collection: Women
There are many rooms in the House of Pain.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Heart
Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?Collection: Scar
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.Collection: Loneliness
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.Collection: Easter
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.Collection: Christian
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.Collection: Humility
Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in the spiritual army is never off his battlefield. He is only removed to another part of the battlefield when a wound interrupts what he was meant to do, and sets him doing something else.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Prayer
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Feet
I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.Collection: Miracle
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.'Collection: Stars