Carmichael Quotes 2

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. 

I think of the love of God as a great river, pouring through us even as the waters pour through a ravine at flood time. Nothing can keep this love from pouring through us, except of course our own blocking of the river. Do you sometimes feel that you have got to the end of your love for someone who refuses and repulses you? Such a thought is folly, for one cannot come to the end of what one has not got. We have no store of love at all. We are not jugs; we are riverbeds. 

Blessed is the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, then nothing can keep you from His peace.

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

There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say successful. 

Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons. 

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

The saddest thing one meets, is a nominal Christian. 

[Amy Carmichael]

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Carmichael Quotes

When I consider the cross of Christ how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?

Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through these three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own yet we settle down in this world, in the most un-stranger-like fashion exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. Apostolic living has certainly died! 

If a sudden irritation 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. 

We must look upon the world, with all its delights and all its attractions with suspicion and reserve. We who love our Lord and whose affections are set on Heavenly things voluntarily and gladly lay aside the things that charm and ravish the world, that our hearts may be ravished with the things of Heaven; that our whole may be poured forth in constant and unreserved devotion in the service of the Lord who died to save us! 

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. 

If the praise of others elates me and their criticism depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding, 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. 

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

[Amy Carmichael]

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Letter on Spiritual Subjects

Dear Friend, 

Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.  

I hear you say, "I greatly want to know whether I am one of those who are born again." There are two ways whereby a soul comes to know that it is born again. The first is by the revelation of the Spirit bearing witness to the soul in some word or other where this truth is declared. The second is by His enabling the soul to discern its own acts in Divine light, and to draw conclusions from its discerned acts of grace that it has the principle; and in both these ways the Lord can give you satisfaction in an instant if it pleases Him. But, generally speaking, it is some time before a child of God can draw steady conclusions of its being new-born from its own feelings of the new life; and therefore, you may be new-born though you do not know it! 

A living infant, you know, when first born into the world has life, but it does not know it. It had a secret life from its first quickening in the womb, and from thence a secret motion; but as soon as it is born it begins to live visibly to others, but yet the child itself knows nothing of the matter. It cries, desires the breast, tastes the milk, and is satisfied, sees the light and feels the heat with pleasure, all of which are visible demonstrations of its life to bystanders, but the child knows nothing of it, because it is not capable of self-reflection. 

And thus it is with a newborn soul; there is a secret work of God upon all the heart, a principle of life given, and from thence some secret motions and faint stirrings now and then, under begun convictions, before it is brought forth into the visible life of grace, which discovers itself as soon as ever the soul is born again, in the breath or cry of the new creature, its desires, its discerning's, and its enjoyments, which, when communicated to grown Christians, they know such a soul is one of Christ's new-born babes, although this child itself is not yet capable so to reflect upon its own acts as to conclude its life from thence. And if this be your case, that you can not pass a judgment from what you have experienced that you have the life of grace, or are newborn, then tell me, as a rational creature, how it is with you, for as such you can tell what the feelings of the soul have been, although as a new creature you may not yet be come to such an exercise of your spiritual senses as to know those feelings to be feelings of grace, and a certain demonstration of your being born again. 

Well, a living child sees. What have you seen? Have you seen yourself to be a sinner by nature as well as by practice, in heart as well as life, and that you are utterly undone, and must perish forever without a saving interest in Jesus Christ, as being utterly unable to do anything to deliver yourself from the wrath to come? Have you seen your own righteousness to be but filthy rags, and your own strength to do any good but weakness? Again, have you seen as excellency in Christ, as a complete Savior, that is exceedingly suitable to your case as a lost sinner? And have you any discerning's of the glory of God's free grace and mercy in Christ? You have then the new creature's eye, discerning faith, even the faith of God's elect. And from these discerning's have you been made to cry unto the Lord, to lament your sinfulness before Him, and to supplicate His Throne for mercy, praying Him to give you Christ whatever He denies you of? You have then the new creature's breath, which flows from none but those that have the new creature's life. 

Again, what are your desires? Are the longings of your soul after the free grace and mercy of God in Christ, as held forth in the Promises, those breasts of consolation? You have then the new creature's appetite and are certainly born of the Word and Spirit of God. Once more, what are your enjoyments? What satisfies and pleases your soul best? Has the free grace of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ been sweet and savory to you in a promise or in an ordinance, to the refreshing and satisfying of your soul for some moments, just so long as you have had the breast in your mouth, the grace of the promise milked out to you? Then you have tasted that the Lord is gracious and are one of Christ's new-born babes. And have you ever felt any refreshing warmth and comfort in the love of God, which, like fire, has warmed and heated your cold soul? 

You have then that sensation which is proper to a new creature, and it is evident in these respects that you are certainly born again, and as such you shall see, that is, enjoy the kingdom of God as a kingdom of grace here, which is a kingdom of power, righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; and you shall enter into the kingdom of glory hereafter, as being made fit to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light; for he who is your God has prepared for you a city, and wrought your soul for this self-same thing, there being never a soul in the world that is thus wrought upon but is a vessel of mercy prepared unto glory, by a saving work of the Holy Spirit upon it, as well as in the purpose of God concerning it. Go on, therefore, as a new-born babe, to desire the sincere milk of the Word the unmixed grace of the Gospel that you may grow thereby, for it is on purpose for you to maintain and increase the begun life of grace in your soul, until it is perfected in the life of glory. Rejoice, then, you lamb of Christ, for you are exceedingly safe under your kind Shepherd's care. He will gather you with His arm and carry you in His bosom; He will lead you into green pastures, beside the still waters, and make you to lie down safely. (Psalm 23:2)

[Anne Dutton]

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It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a holy use.

   
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

Troubles rather fix, than unsettle the Christian just as tempests only serve to root the oak faster, while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

 
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation may produce the effect of a lamp inverted, which is extinguished by the very excess of that oil, whose property is to feed it.

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. My object is to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

The artful insult, whose envenomed dart scarcely wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. There is an eloquence in silence.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts, half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own. Nor do His infinite perfections fill our hearts half as much as our smallest wants.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom.

People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but it possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world death does not give us a new heart.

[Hannah More]

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Idleness among children, as among men is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries.
One pays dear for living long.

The present education of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with academic accomplishments but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, a mother and a wife.


There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal, whereas its continuance should have taught us its value.

There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings:  a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness,
a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful them. The second would make us humble them. The third would make us moderate.

He who has wasted money may by diligence, hope to fetch it back again. But no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour!

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves, work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it. We are too apt to satisfy ourselves with simply commending good things.

We do not really know how to forgive others until we know what it is to be forgiven by God.

[Hannah More]

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Tada Quotes 2

We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own hearts.

Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

But that's the same for everyone if we let society determine our value," Steve explained as he sat down on the piano bench. "We always lose when we evaluate ourselves according to someone else's ideas or standards. And there are as many standards as there are people. A jock measures you by your athletic ability; a student by your brains; a steady by your looks. It's a losing battle," he said, striking a sour piano chord for added emphasis. "We have to forget about what people say or think and recognize that God's values are the only important ones.

The weaker I am, the harder I must lean on God's grace; the harder I lean on him, the stronger I discover him to be, and the bolder my testimony to his grace.

True wisdom is found in trusting God when you can't figure things out.

This paralysis is my greatest mercy.

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed safer.

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

Probably, I thought, my suffering and training is a lifelong process. It will end only when I go to be with Christ.

My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

I'd learned that you can't wear a crown unless you bear a cross that if our Savior had learned obedience through suffering, we should expect the same.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

[Joni Eareckson Tada]

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Tada Quotes

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desperate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

We will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!

Contentment has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place but for different reasons. Satan's motive in Jesus' crucifixion was rebellion; God's motive was love and mercy. Satan was a secondary cause behind the Crucifixion, but it was God who ultimately wanted it, willed it, and allowed Satan to carry it out. And the same holds true for disease.

AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.

[Joni Eareckson Tada]

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 Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness.

A corrupt practice may be abolished but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired and in which great characters are formed.

All men desire the gifts of God but few desire God Himself.

Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, and no rhetoric describe.

Luxury and dissipation as soft and gentle as their approaches are, and as silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices!

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible!

If I wished to punish my enemy, I would make him hate somebody!

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed.

Pride never sleeps it is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober but a proud man is never humble.

Anger is a violent act while envy is a constant habit. No one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

Those who lack nothing are apt to forget how many there are who lack everything.

Expectation quickens desire. Possession deadens it.

We live in an age which must be amused!

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury.

Going to the theater, like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring which robs me of all my time.

Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children. He chastens them in love. He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare. He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.

When we read of Christian martyrs, we imagine that we could be one. When we come to act we cannot even bear a provoking word.

[Hannah More]

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S. Spurgeon Quotes

How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love! 

The soul that has learned the blessed secret of seeing God's hand in all that concerns it, cannot be a prey to fear, it looks beyond all second causes, straight into the heart and will of God, and rests content, because He rules.

She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put myself first in his heart.

Lord, you have told me who You are, you have in mercy revealed Yourself to me, I know you to be that blessed 'gift of God' which alone can save and satisfy my soul. The depth and compass of heavenly love are manifested in You, and You have shown me, not my need only, but the sufficiency of Your grace and power to meet it. I am an empty sinner; you are a full Christ!

Ah! How little I then thought that my eyes looked on him who was to be my life’s beloved; how little I dreamed of the honor God was preparing for me in the near future! It is a mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else we might sometimes turn away from our best blessings and put from us the choicest and loveliest gifts of His providence.

Oh, my Father, teach me to realize how deep, and strong, and pitiful is the love of Thine heart to me, since it led Thee to give Thine only begotten Son, Jesus Christ Himself, to redeem me, and bring me home to Thee, my God!

Keep your minister’s table well provided, and you shall be fed with the finest of the wheat; see that his earthly cares do not press on him painfully, and your own hearts’ burdens will be lifted by his heavenly teachings; supply him with this world’s needful comforts, and he will not fail to bring you solace and consolation in the time of your extremity. If he has sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if he shall reap your carnal things?

[Susannah Spurgeon]

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Prentiss Quotes

The longer I live, the more conscious I am of my human frailty and of the constant, overwhelming need I have of God's grace.

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil we often find diamonds!

Dying grace is not usually given until it is needed. Death, to the disciple of Jesus, is only stepping from one room to another and far better room of our Father's house. How little all the sorrows of the way will seem to us, when we get to our home above.

What are trials, but angels to beckon us nearer to Him. I have lived to see that God never was so good to me as when He seemed most severe.

In proportion to your devotion to the Savior will be the blessedness of your life.

[Elizabeth Prentiss]

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