Top 90 Amy Carmichael Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don’t wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.”

— Amy Carmichael

52. “If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love...”

— Amy Carmichael

53. “Be earnest, earnest, earnest; mad if thou wilt: Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And that thy last deed ere the judgment day.”

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54. “Ours should be the love that asks not ‘how little?’ but, ‘how much?’ The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.”

— Amy Carmichael

55. “If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.”

— Amy Carmichael

56. “There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.”

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57. “God forgive us! God arouse us! Shame us out of our callousness! Shame us out of our sin!”

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58. “If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying “Peace, peace,” where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word “Let love be without dissimulation” and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

59. “If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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60. “If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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61. “If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.”

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62. “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 exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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63. “Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.”

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64. “It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.”

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65. “One must as willingly be nothing, as something.”

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66. “If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, “Oh, that’s what they always do.” “Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that,” then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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67. “Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.”

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68. “So whether our message is welcomed or not, the fact remains we must go to all; and the worse they are and the harder they are, the more evident is it that, wanted or not, it is needed by them.”

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69. “When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart’s choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

70. “If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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71. “If I do not give a friend “The benefit of the doubt,” but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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72. “If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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73. “The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap.”

— Amy Carmichael

74. “If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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75. “Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.”

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76. “Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call prayer, or whether it be the action that follows, leads sooner or later to a new demand on personal devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Amy Carmichael

77. “All life’s training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don’t grudge me the learning of a new lesson.”

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78. “Praise Him who went before to search out a Resting-place. May it be a place of victory too, for His own glory’s sake.”

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79. “If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.”

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80. “I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room – more or less – when there is a true song.”

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81. “The Calvinists illustrate their belief by a single illuminating word, Cat-hold, and the Arminians by another, Monkey-hold. Could you find better illustrations? The cat takes up the kitten and carries it in its mouth; the kitten is passive, the cat does everything. But the little monkey holds on to its mother, and clings with might and main. Those who have watched the “cat-hold” in the house, and the “monkey-hold” out in the jungle, can appreciate the accuracy of these two illustrations.”

— Amy Carmichael

82. “I don’t wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.”

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83. “Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.”

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84. “The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done and rendered up account.”

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85. “Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, ‘What does it matter.’”

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86. “We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray – really pray, I mean – with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.”

— Amy Carmichael

87. “The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say – with every fresh need has come a fresh supply.”

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88. “The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.”

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89. “If I cannot catch ‘the sound of noise of rain’ long before the rain falls, and, going to some hilltop of the spirit, as near to my God as I can, have not faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told ‘there is nothing,’ till at last ‘there arises a little cloud out of the sea,’ then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

— Amy Carmichael

90. “Humdrum we have called the work, and humdrum it is. There is nothing romantic about potters except in poetry, nor is there much of romance about missions except on platforms and in books. Yet “though it’s dull at whiles,” there is joy in the doing of it, there is joy in just obeying. He said “Go, tell,” and we have come and are telling, and we meet Him as we “go and tell.”

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91. “Can you find a promise that if we follow the Lord Jesus Christ, life is going to be fairly easy? I do not think we shall find even one. But we shall find ever so many promises assuring us that however things are, we may count on strength to make us brave and peace to keep our hearts at rest.”

— Amy Carmichael