Quotes by Amy Carmichael
Amy Carmichael (1867–1951) — Missionarin · Protestantisch · Indien
Amy Carmichael war eine nordirische protestantische Missionarin und Autorin, die von 1895 bis zu ihrem Tod in Südindien wirkte. Bekannt wurde sie durch die Rettung zahlreicher Kinder vor ritueller Tempelprostitution und die Gründung der Dohnavur Fellowship, wobei ihr autoritärer Führungsstil und die strenge Abschottung der Gemeinschaft missionsgeschichtlich kritisiert werden. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet sie vor allem als Beispiel praktischer Nächstenliebe sowie durch geistliche Texte über Hingabe, Gebet und radikale Nachfolge.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Discipleship, Love, Service & Love of Neighbour, The Bible & the Word of God, Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, Prayer & Silence, Relationships & Family
Quotes by Amy Carmichael
You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Amy Carmichael
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace… If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you know what His will is.
Amy Carmichael
If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary’s love.
Amy Carmichael
The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
Amy Carmichael
If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probable that you have never heard God speak.
Amy Carmichael
Christ, if ever my feet should fail, and I consider turning back; if the thorn and the desert make me complain, Lord, show me Thy feet. Thy feet, bleeding and wounded feet.
Amy Carmichael
Never about, always to.
Amy Carmichael
Those who think too much of themselves don’t think enough.
Amy Carmichael
If I go easy on myself and let myself slide comfortably into the vice of self-pity and self-satisfaction; if I do not try, through the grace of God, to summon strength, then I know nothing at all about the love of the cross.
Amy Carmichael
We are trusted to spread the spirit of love. Tenderness in judgment, the habit of thinking the best of one another, unwillingness to believe evil, grief if we are forced to do so, eagerness to believe good, joy over one recovered from any slip or fall, unselfish gladness in another’s joys, sorrow in another’s sorrow, readiness to do anything to help another entirely irrespective of self – all this and much more is included in that wonderful word love. If love weakens among us, if it ever becomes possible to tolerate the least shadow of an unloving thought, our Fellowship will begin to perish. Unlove is deadly. It is a cancer. It may kill slowly but it always kills in the end. Let us fear it, fear to give room to it as we should fear to nurse a cobra. It is deadlier than any cobra. And just as one minute drop of the almost invisible cobra venom spreads swiftly all over the body of one into whom it has been injected, so one drop of the gall of unlove in my heart or yours, however unseen, has a terrible power of spreading all through our Family, for we are one body – we are parts of one another. If one member suffers loss, all suffer loss. Not one of us liveth to herself.
Amy Carmichael
If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider “not spiritual work” I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and the exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every Monday morning, for the week is sure to be a battlefield, outwardly and inwardly in the unseen life of the spirit, which is often by far the sternest battlefield for souls. Either way, the Lord your God goes before you, He shall fight for you!
Amy Carmichael
The amazing thing is that everyone who reads the Bible has the same joyful thing to say about it. In every land, in every language, it is the same tale: where that Book is read, not with the eyes only, but with the mind and heart, the life is changed. Sorrowful people are comforted, sinful people are transformed, peoples who were in the dark walk in the light. Is it not wonderful to think that this Book, which is such a mighty power if it gets a chance to work in an honest heart, is in our hands today?
Amy Carmichael
Sources: conservativechristianapologist.com, facebook.com, gloriouslifechanginggod.com, pepperdine.edu
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