A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.
– Amy Carmichael –
from Candles in the Dark
Amy Carmichael
The attraction of the cross – Amy Carmichael
God hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
– Amy Carmichael –
from God’s Missionary
The Cost of Opportunity – Amy Carmichael
Satan is so much more in earnest than we are—he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.
– Amy Carmichael –
The laugh of faith – Amy Carmichael
We are not here to be overcome, but to rise unvanquished after every knockout blow, and laugh the laugh of faith, not fear.
– Amy Carmichael –
Love that leads the way – Amy Carmichael
Give me the love that leads the way
The faith that nothing can dismay
The hope no disappointments tire
The passion that will burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!”
– Amy Carmichael –
Consider the Cross of Christ – Amy Carmichael
When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?
– Amy Carmichael –
The secret to great living – Amy Carmichael
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.
– Amy Carmichael –
The Way of Christ – Amy Carmichael
Are we going in the way Christ has gone, or are we only talking and praying and singing about it? What about likes and dislikes? What about choices? What about Self? Christ’s way is the way that says “No” to the “I” that rises up so often and in its many different disguises. “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself (say “No” to himself), and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”
– Amy Carmichael –
Love and Giving – Amy Carmichael
You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
– Amy Carmichael –