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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of striving for higher ideals in love, even when it is challenging.
In this quote, Amy Carmichael reflects on the concept of 'Calvary love', which symbolizes the ultimate sacrifice and selfless love demonstrated through Christ's crucifixion. She suggests that to avoid holding others accountable to their highest potential due to the fear of discomfort is to misunderstand the depth and challenge of true, sacrificial love.
In practice
A motivational speech about the importance of commitment in relationships.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
Making disciples isnβt about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at allβthe focus is on loving them.
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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