Top 90 Amy Carmichael Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”

— Amy Carmichael

2. “Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that’ll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.”

— Amy Carmichael

3. “Missionary life is simply a chance to die.”

— Amy Carmichael

4. “When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?”

— Amy Carmichael

5. “We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.”

— Amy Carmichael

6. “If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.”

— Amy Carmichael

7. “Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?”

— Amy Carmichael

8. “It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.”

— Amy Carmichael

9. “It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates.”

— Amy Carmichael

10. “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

11. “There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.’”

— Amy Carmichael

12. “Those who think too much of themselves don’t think enough.”

— Amy Carmichael

13. “Thank God, He doesn’t measure out grace in teaspoons.”

— Amy Carmichael

14. “I would rather burn out than rust out.”

— Amy Carmichael

15. “If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

16. “God, harden me against myself!”

— Amy Carmichael

17. “But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.”

— Amy Carmichael

18. “The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.”

— Amy Carmichael

19. “All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey...”

— Amy Carmichael

20. “Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?”

— Amy Carmichael

21. “Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse...”

— Amy Carmichael

22. “If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

23. “Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile.”

— Amy Carmichael

24. “It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.”

— Amy Carmichael

25. “If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.”

— Amy Carmichael

26. “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

27. “The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian.”

— Amy Carmichael

28. “Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light, and go to them that sit in darkness?”

— Amy Carmichael

29. “I wish thy way. And when in me myself should rise, and long for something otherwise, Then Lord, take sword and spear And slay.”

— Amy Carmichael

30. “Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine – so near that a whisper can reach Him.”

— Amy Carmichael

31. “A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.”

— Amy Carmichael

32. “If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting “Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?” then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

33. “If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, “You do not understand”, or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other’s highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

34. “If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.”

— Amy Carmichael

35. “Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.”

— Amy Carmichael

36. “If I say, “Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive,” as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

37. “O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.”

— Amy Carmichael

38. “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 will know what His will is.”

— Amy Carmichael

39. “There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us – To will what God wills brings peace.”

— Amy Carmichael

40. “God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”

— Amy Carmichael

41. “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

42. “The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough.”

— Amy Carmichael

43. “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 love.”

— Amy Carmichael

44. “Strength of my heart, I need not fail, Not mind to fear but to obey, With such a Leader, who could quail? Thou art as Thou wert yesterday. Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee, Fulfil Thy purposes through me.”

— Amy Carmichael

45. “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

46. “If I can write an unkind letter, speak an unkind work, think an unkind thought without grief and shame, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

47. “If I put my own good name before the other’s highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary’s love.”

— Amy Carmichael

48. “If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

49. “He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.”

— Amy Carmichael

50. “There are many rooms in the House of Pain.”

— Amy Carmichael