Quotes from Amy Carmichael
Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.
— Amy Carmichael
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
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.
— Amy Carmichael
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.
— 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.
— Amy Carmichael
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.
— Amy Carmichael
From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.
— Amy Carmichael
If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.
— Amy Carmichael
God, harden me against myself!
— Amy Carmichael
Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons.
— Amy Carmichael
He hath never failed thee yet.Never will His love forget.O fret not thyself nor letThy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.
— Amy Carmichael
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