Amy Carmichael

How often, as we ponder some new tender mercy, so undeserved, so dewy with the freshness of love that we long for words of glory to sing that love, we can only say, Lord, Thou knowest me. I am all open unto Thee—and yet Thou hast done this.

—Amy Carmichael

My God shall supply all your need according to His riches (Phil. 4:19). We lay those words before our Lord and we say to Him very earnestly, And now, O Lord, do as You have said.

—Amy Carmichael

It is a petty view of our Father’s love and wisdom which demands or expects an answer according to our desires, apart from His wisdom. We see hardly one inch of the narrow lane of time. To our God eternity lies open as a meadow.

—Amy Carmichael

God of patience and endurance,

Steadfast as the steadfast stars

Stands Thy promise, Thine assurance

Unto Thine ambassadors:

I, thy God, will strengthen thee . . .

Where I am, there thou shalt be.

—Amy Carmichael

Let us ask that the stillness in which only His lights can shine may be ever around us, the stillness of the calm of His presence. And oh, let us ask that in this dark world we may so shine that others may see to read His love in the face of our loving Jesus.

—Amy Carmichael

Lest I should faint before the race be run,

Lest I should quail before the fight be won,

O heavenly Intercessor and my Lord,

Fulfill to me Thy comfortable word—

Thy Peter’s word. How can I be afraid

If Thou dost say to me, But I have prayed?

—Amy Carmichael

He who has felt that Face of beauty,

Which wakes the world’s great hymn,

For one unutterable moment

Bent in love o’er him,

In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels

Grow nearer through Him.

—Amy Carmichael

I have a Savior; though I sought

Through earth and air and sea,

I could not find a word, a thought,

To show Him worthily.

But planted here in rock and moss

I see the Sign of utmost loss;

I hear a word—On Calvary’s Cross

Love gave Himself for thee.

—Amy Carmichael

So let us praise Him now, though it may be from under the harrow, from the depths, from anywhere. We shall never have the chance again to love Him in the peace of a great contentment, with the word ringing in our ear, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me.

—Amy Carmichael

O deeps unfathomed as the sea,

O heights that reach beyond the high,

O Love that lavished all on me,

I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.

O Love that is not here or there,

But like Thine own eternity

Is here, is there, is everywhere,

I yield, I love, I worship Thee.

—Amy Carmichael

Breathe, Wind of God. Forgiving Love, renew us;

Form us and discipline to Thy desire.

O Man of War, great Son of Man, endue us;

O mighty Spirit, kindle with Thy fire!

—Amy Carmichael

O tell it out that He is near, all you who love Him, tell it out to the sad world that thinks Him far away, though He be not far from every one of us.

—Amy Carmichael

How often, as we ponder some new tender mercy, so undeserved, so dewy with the freshness of love that we long for words of glory to sing that love, we can only say, Lord, Thou knowest me. I am all open unto Thee—and yet Thou hast done this.

—Amy Carmichael

Our Lord has hallowed the ordinary in such a way that no one can ever make it unspiritual.

—Amy Carmichael

Thanks be to God, the Spirit helpeth our infirmities, even the mental infirmity of subjection to interruptions when we least desire them.

—Amy Carmichael

Bare heights of loneliness, deep valleys of depression, a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sand, what are they to Him? Even there He can refresh us; even there He can renew us.

—Amy Carmichael

These long and difficult intervals will soon be past for ever, and you will see Him face to face who trusted you to trust through any test, through any interval.

—Amy Carmichael

It is possible to lose ground because of some private refusal to the will of God at the point where it crossed our natural will, and if this happens, the Lord cannot fulfill His purpose in us.

—Amy Carmichael

After prayer comes peace—the first answer to prayer is the peace of God which passeth all understanding.

—Amy Carmichael

There is never a fear that has not a corresponding Fear not.

—Amy Carmichael

Christ our Captain is calling for volunteers; here are the terms: Whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospel’s the same shall find it.

—Amy Carmichael

There are always chances for strengthening one another’s hands in God; let us not lose our chances.

—Amy Carmichael

Our God DOES satisfy. I think sometimes He has to draw us into strange experiences in order that we shall prove Him to the uttermost, for some purpose out of sight.

—Amy Carmichael

But fight though it is, the battle is the Lord’s, and victory will come with the Morning.

It is not Morning yet.

—Amy Carmichael

It has been a great comfort to me to realize anew that it is God and only God we need.

—Amy Carmichael

Oh to care with a deeper caring—to pray with diviner power!

—Amy Carmichael

O deeps unfathomed as the sea,

O heights that reach beyond the high,

O Love that lavished all on me,

I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.

O Love that is not here or there,

But like Thine own eternity

Is here, is there, is everywhere,

I yield, I love, I worship Thee.

—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.

—Amy Carmichael

He who has felt that Face of beauty,

Which wakes the world’s great hymn,

For one unutterable moment

Bent in love o’er him,

In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels

Grow nearer through Him.

—Amy Carmichael

Nothing so surely proves true love as does steadfast faithfulness in holding a loved one to the highest.

—Amy Carmichael