Amy Carmichael

God make us all obedient like His sun and moon and stars, and help us to shine gladly to Him who made us.

—Amy Carmichael

If Jesus built a ship,

She would travel trim;

If Jesus roofed a barn,

No leaks would be left by Him;

If Jesus planted a garden,

He would make it like Paradise;

If Jesus did my day’s work,

It would delight His Father’s eyes.

—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

Oh to know our God so well that all misunderstandings shall be quite impossible! Paul meant a good deal when he said, That I may know Him (Phil. 3:10)

—Amy Carmichael

Thou art my Stony Rock

Thou standest very high,

And yet Thou art accessible,

My God, yea very nigh:

A thought, a wish, an infant’s cry,

And I, in Thee, am set on high.

—Amy Carmichael

What is their power, my Lord, to Thee?

Shadows of fear, oh, flee away;

I hear my Captain calling me—

Where is the night? ’Tis dawn, ’tis day.

—Amy Carmichael

God is patient to wait, but I think we sometimes try to use His patience as a cover for our slackness.

—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

An hour at the foot of the Cross steadies the soul as nothing else can.

—Amy Carmichael

Our feelings do not affect God’s facts.

—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

Some of us are like Peter, Silver and gold have I none. But we have other things: for example, books. Am I sharing my books and what I read in them? Am I sharing every joy I can?

—Amy Carmichael

It looked impossible. But we have not to look at things from a human point of view, so that did not matter, and we reckon on God who is at home in impossibilities.

—Amy Carmichael

He is the God of tomorrow as well as of today.

—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

Should not the very difficulties, the sense of the impregnable, impossible, send us to our knees, and then out to the battle front?

—Amy Carmichael

I don’t think we can ever count on thread being supplied for a pattern He has not planned. Our prayer must be, Protect me from mistaking my desire for Your direction.

—Amy Carmichael

Oh may God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, so shine through us now, that something of Him may be seen and felt by the people pressing around us!

—Amy Carmichael

There is a tremendously uplifting power in joy. Perhaps that is why there is so much about it in the Bible.

—Amy Carmichael

Whatever the means of our perfecting may be, they come by way of His hand.

—Amy Carmichael

Ours is a God who delivers, not from the hour of trial, but out of it, out of its power; and in the bearing up under it, not in the sliding out from beneath it, there is strength and victory.

—Amy Carmichael

We know that the temptation to fear is a very old one; millions of people have had it. But they have conquered, and so will you, if you take our Saviour’s words of strength to yourself, and stay yourself on them.

—Amy Carmichael

Do not forget what Christmas cost Him—Gethsemane and Calvary.

—Amy Carmichael

But we have a God to whom we can go at any minute, the weakest minute, the darkest minute, at midnight. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress (Ps. 71:3).

—Amy Carmichael

There is no need to be overcome, whatever happens. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength (Judg. 5:21).

—Amy Carmichael

Who could be lonely with Jesus? He satisfieth!

—Amy Carmichael